Miniature Flexible & Reconfigurable Manufacturing System for 3D Micro-products

该提案试图制定一个新的议程，以创建一个集成的微型柔性和可重构制造系统，为英国工业提供下一代高附加值微型产品的颠覆性和变革性技术。该研究将集中于基础技术的发展，如用于在线测量的嵌入式传感器，用于3D材料处理和装配的并联机器人，多尺度建模和混合微加工方法，这些都是未来柔性微制造过程的核心技术。该项目基于该联盟在表面计量、机器人、机床设计、微加工和微成形方面的丰富经验，其工业合作伙伴是机床、计量、医疗仪器和光子制造商的领先专家。这项研究将从一个非常坚实的技术基础开始，该技术基础是EPSRC和欧盟在该主题领域的几个成功项目所取得的。

The proposal attempt to set out a new agenda to create an integrated miniature flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing system to deliver to UK industry disruptive and transformative technology for the next generation of high added-value micro-products. The proposed research will focus on the development of underlying techniques, such as embedded sensors for on-line metrology, parallel robots for 3D materials handling and assembly, multiscale modelling and hybrid micromachining approach, which are core techniques for future flexible micro-manufacturing process. The project is grounded on the consortium's immense experience in surface metrology, robotics, machine tool design, micromachining and microforming, with industrial partners being leading experts from machine-tool, metrology, medical instrument and photonics manufacturers. The research will start from a very solid baseline in technology achieved from previous several successful EPSRC and EU projects in this subject area.