Micro-robotic handling solutions for PCB (re-) Manufacturing

S Ruggeri, G Fontana, V Basile, M Valori, I Fassi - Procedia Manufacturing, 2017 - Elsevier
The wide investigation of the last decades on a variety of electronic products in order to
increase their performance while miniaturizing them, has raised new issues related to their …

Design of a Multi-Mode Hybrid Micro-Gripper for Surface Mount Technology Component Assembly

G Fontana, N Iacono, SP Negri, G Papadia - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the last few decades, industrial sectors such as smart manufacturing and aerospace have
rapidly developed, contributing to the increase in production of more complex electronic …

Micro-assembly

S Ruggeri, G Fontana, I Fassi - … and Their Applications: A Theoretical and …, 2017 - Springer
The trend toward miniaturisation of the last decade has caused a real revolution in the
manufacturing of many products and systems in several fields, trying to reduce volume and …

Design and validation of a gripper for the automated assembly of film components in flexible electronics manufacturing

M Valori, V Basile, G Fontana… - … Journal of Computer …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Automation in the manufacturing of electronic products and devices has been increasingly
implemented in the last decades, to cope with the growing demand for mass emerging …

SolDef_AI: An Open Source PCB Dataset for Mask R-CNN Defect Detection in Soldering Processes of Electronic Components

G Fontana, M Calabrese, L Agnusdei… - … of Manufacturing and …, 2024 - mdpi.com
The soldering process for aerospace applications follows stringent requirements and
standards to ensure the reliability and safety of electronic connections in aerospace …

Precision handling of electronic components for PCB rework

G Fontana, S Ruggeri, G Legnani, I Fassi - … and Systems: 7th IFIP WG 5.5 …, 2014 - Springer
The paper focuses on the study of strategies and tools to handle miniaturized components in
the electronic industry. In particular, the paper presents an innovative device and method to …

Untethered microrobots actuated with focused permanent magnet field

NA Torres, S Ruggeri, DO Popa - … and Information in …, 2014 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper investigates the actuation of untethered microrobots with a focused magnetic
field generated by a permanent magnet wand. The microrobots are chrome-steel spheres or …

Assembly of film coverlays: development of a configurable gripper for process automation

M Valori, V Basile, S Ruggeri, G Fontana, SP Negri… - Procedia …, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite the widespread use of electronic devices and consumer products integrating flexible
electronics, in industrial practice, the assembly process of film-based coverlays is still …

Micro-Gripping Methods for Micro-Spheres Sorting

G Fontana, S Ruggeri, G Legnani… - … and Robotics at Small …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current innovation of the mechatronic products has led to the use of miniaturized
devices that combine components with different material, shape, reduced mass, and …

A Laser Calibration Device for Mini Robots

G Legnani, A Gabrielli, A Ousdad… - International …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The paper describes a new laser device conceived for surface scanning and more
specifically for mini robot calibrations. The system is based on a laser triangulation sensor …