Abstract
In biology, microelectronics and microsystem technology many operations are today performed by hand which might also be done by micromanipulation robots. Several prototypes of such robots have already been built and tested, and now higher-level problems have to be tackled: control systems with adequate computational power, user-interfaces and planning systems for micromanipulation systems have to be implemented and tested. Special attention must be paid to the requirements of micromanipulation, which differs greatly in some aspects from conventional manipulation. This paper discusses the information processing aspects of the control system of a micromanipulation station. The micromanipulation station consists of a microassembly robot working under a light-optical microscope, a CCD camera and an XY-stage. The requirements for the control computer system are high: assembly and execution planning has to be done in order to perform fully-automated microassembly, a vision system is necessary, and the control of the microrobots and the peripherals connected to the system demand high I/O power. The paper also shows a user interface to access the system resources in a user-friendly way and presents a sketch of the planning and the control algorithms
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