The dismantling of printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) and the recovery of their useful
materials can lead to serious environmental impacts mainly due to their complicated …

The optimisation of a printed circuit board assembly line is mainly influenced by the
constraints of the surface mount device (SMD) placement machine and the characteristics of …

This paper focuses on optimising pick-and-place tasks performed by a dual-arm
collaborative robot in a specific shoe manufacturing industry environment. The robot must …

This paper deals with a pick and place robotic system design problem. The objective is to
present an efficient method which is able to optimize the performances of the robotic system …

This paper presents an optimization study of the single gantry high-speed rotary-head
collect-and-place (CAP) surface mount device (SMD) machine. The rotary-head gantry-type …

This paper proposes a clustering-based heuristic, named average Chebyshev linkage
directed search (ACLDS), to optimize the nozzle and feeder assignments in a single spin …

This article surveys research on the single surface mount device (SMD) placement machine
optimisation problem. We classify the optimisation problem into five sub-problems: feeder …

This work addresses the problem of the development of a robotic system for the picking of
parts cut by a CNC machine and the optimization of the sequencing of this picking process …

In this article we propose an aggregate optimization approach by formulating the multi-head
SMD placement optimization problem into a mixed integer program (MIP) with the variables …

The main objective of this study is to utilize two dynamic models: a mathematical model and
a simple model, to identify a pick-and-place mechanism (PPM) which is driven by a …