Terje K. Lien

TL;DR: In this article, a survey about forms of human-machine cooperation in assembly and available technologies that support the cooperation is presented, including organizational and economic aspects of cooperative assembly including efficient component supply and logistics.

TL;DR: A review of the state of the art research in the areas of assembly system design, planning and operations in the presence of product variety is presented in this article, where methods for assembly representation, sequence generation and assembly line balancing are reviewed and summarized.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a new gripping principle based on a novel Coanda effect ejector meeting the challenges of thin materials like textiles, leather, porous tissues, meat and fish fillets.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe two basic principles for the manual assembly: the parallel arrangement of stations, and the sequential arrangement, and present a theoretical model for the possible output as function of production volume, number of assembly operations, and station operation time imbalance, which enables prediction of the performance and selection of the optimal system for a given set of conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a robot control system dedicated to grinding large Francis turbines, based on an active force feedback system using a three-axes force sensor attached to the robot's end effector.