Intelligent Assembly System

Dear Colleagues,

Assembly is the industrial process that puts together all the parts to form a complete and qualified product. Final assembly is the moment of truth for product manufacturing. Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are leading to deep workplace innovation. The applications of AI and robotics to assembly will certainly increase efficiency, precision, and sustainability. An intelligent assembly system commonly contains the process of perception, decision-making, compliance control, motion planning, and so on. In an intelligent assembly system, how to make a robot finish an assembly process with several steps rapidly and accurately is an open problem, especially in the complicated and changing working environment. In addition, the intelligent assembly of deformable parts is more challenging in large components with weak rigidity or small precision products.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect the latest research and achievements on sensing devices (vision, force-moment sensor, and others) and intelligence algorithms, compliance control strategies, and robot techniques, which are related to intelligent assembly tasks. The contributions of the method, theory, and application in research papers are all welcome, as well as comprehensive review and survey papers.

Dr. Hao Gong
Dr. Junfeng Fan
Guest Editors

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• robot assembly
• artificial intelligence
• perception and decision-making
• compliance control