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Minimizing the Arm Movements of a Multi-Head Gantry Machine

Timo Knuutila, Sami Pyöttiälä, Olli S. Nevalainen, Minimizing the Arm Movements of a Multi-Head Gantry Machine. In: Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2007), 326-335, 2007.

Abstract:

In printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing multi-head gantry machines
are becoming increasingly more popular in surface mount technology
(SMT), because they combine high speed with moderate price.
This kind of machine picks up several components from the feeder and
places them on the PCB. The process is repeated until all component
placements are done. In this article, a subproblem of the machine
control is studied. Here, the placement order of the components, the
nozzles in the placement arm and the component locations in the feeder
are fixed. The goal is to find an optimal pick-up sequence when
minimizing the total length of the arm movements.

An algorithm that searches the optimal pick-up sequence is proposed and
tested widely. Tests show that the method can be applied to problems of
practical size.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpKnPyNe07a,
  title = {Minimizing the Arm Movements of a Multi-Head Gantry Machine},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2007)},
  author = {Knuutila, Timo and Pyöttiälä, Sami and Nevalainen, Olli S.},
  pages = {326-335},
  year = {2007},
}

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