Precise Positioning in a Telepresent Microassembly System

Abstract

The implementation of telepresence technology brings promising advantages for numerous technical systems. In the field of manual microassembly, where low batches are still handmade with microscopes and tweezers it offers ergonomic improvements and new production scenarios, since the worker is separated from the production environment and only connected via networks. Although this is very useful it also provides a thread in that the employed network could introduce delays into the system. Such delays negatively affect the precision of micro production. This research aims to show the extent to which delays can influence tasks which involve precision in a real microassembly setup and scenario