Developments in microultrasonic machining (MUSM) at FEMTO-ST

Robotic Microassembly and micromanipulation at FEMTO-ST

This paper deals with a historical overview of the activities of the French FEMTO-ST institute in the field of microrobotic manipulation and assembly. It firstly shows tools developped for fine and coarse positioning: microgrippers, 2 DoF modules and smart surfces. The paper then goes on the automation of tridimensional microassembly of objects measuring between 10 microns and 400 microns. We a...

Machining Technology Developments

developments in conventional machining of aluminum matrix composite material: a review

aluminium matrix composites (amcs) materials are continuously displacing traditional engineering materials because of their advantages of high stiffness and strength over homogeneous material formulations. properties of amcs can be tailored to the demands of different industrial applications by suitable combinations of matrix, reinforcement and processing route. presently, several grades of amc...

Femto Cloud

This paper studies distributed formation of femto-clouds in a UMTS LTE network. Femtocell access points (FAPs) are equipped with computational resources. They share their resources with neighboring FAPs and form local clouds with the aim to avoid the remote cloud costs while improving the user quality of experience (QoE) in terms of handling latency. In exchange for sharing their excess resourc...

New Developments at EHP

volume 123 | number 4 | April 2015 • Environmental Health Perspectives As many of you may recall, Hugh A. Tilson retired as Editor-in-Chief of EHP in August 2014. Historically, the Editor-in-Chief of EHP had two major functions: providing scientific and strategic vision, and managing day-to-day office operations. This dual role derived from EHP ’s unique position as a government publication sta...