Study of cylinder/plan capillary force near millimeter scale and experimental validation

Author

Vitard, Julien ; Régnier, Stéphane ; Lambert, Pierre

Author_Institution

Lab. de Robotique de Paris, Fontenay-aux-Roses

fYear

2007

fDate

22-25 July 2007

Firstpage

221

Lastpage

226

Abstract

The theoretical study presented in this paper aims at proposing two capillary forces models related to manipulation of cylindrical and prismatic components. The underlying application framework is related to the objectives of the European NanoRAC project, which are the manipulation and characterization of nanocomponents such as nanotubes or nanowires. The analytical equivalence of Laplace and energetical method in the case of prism/plane interaction has been demonstrated, and then applied numerically to the cylinder/plane interaction. First experiments at millimeter scale on cylinders are introduced.

Keywords

capillarity; fluid dynamics; micromanipulators; nanotubes; nanowires; European NanoRAC project; capillary force model; cylindrical components; nanocomponents; nanotubes; nanowires; prism-plane interaction; prismatic components; Computational geometry; Difference equations; Laplace equations; Manufacturing; Nanotubes; Nanowires; Robotic assembly; Shape; Solid modeling; USA Councils;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Assembly and Manufacturing, 2007. ISAM '07. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Ann Arbor, MI

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0563-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0563-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISAM.2007.4288476

Filename

4288476