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Micromechanical manufacturing based on microequipment creates new possibi- ties in goods production. If microequipment sizes are comparable to the sizes of the microdevices to be produced, it is possible to decrease the cost of production drastically. The main components of the production cost - material, energy, space consumption, equipment, and maintenance - decrease with the scaling down of equipment sizes. To obtain really inexpensive production, labor costs must be reduced to almost zero. For this purpose, fully automated microfactories will be developed. To create fully automated microfactories, we propose using arti?cial neural networks having different structures. The simplest perceptron-like neural network can be used at the lowest levels of microfactory control systems. Adaptive Critic Design, based on neural network models of the microfactory objects, can be used for manufacturing process optimization, while associative-projective neural n- works and networks like ART could be used for the highest levels of control systems. We have examined the performance of different neural networks in traditional image recognition tasks and in problems that appear in micromechanical manufacturing. We and our colleagues also have developed an approach to mic- equipment creation in the form of sequential generations. Each subsequent gene- tion must be of a smaller size than the previous ones and must be made by previous generations. Prototypes of ?rst-generation microequipment have been developed and assessed.Product Identifiers
PublisherSpringer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. Kg
ISBN-139783642426117
eBay Product ID (ePID)208979586
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Number of Pages221 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameNeural Networks and Micromechanics
Publication Year2014
SubjectEngineering & Technology, Computer Science
TypeTextbook
AuthorDonald C. Wunsch, Tatiana Baidyk, Ernst Kussul
Subject AreaMaterial Science, Mechanical Engineering
Dimensions
Item Height235 mm
Item Weight361 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureGermany
Title_AuthorDonald C. Wunsch, Ernst Kussul, Tatiana Baidyk