Prof. Alain Delchambre

General Information

Function	Professor
E-mail :	adelchulb.ac.be
Phone :	+32 2 650 26 68
Fax :	+32 2 650 24 82
Location :	UB3-248

Teaching

Groups

Biomechanics & Instrumentation

Current projects

3ndoVision - Three dimension endoscope development

Past projects

4MμPump - 4M micro-pump

Endomina - Design, realization and marketing of an endoscopic surgical instrument

GALILEI - Generic Analyser and Listener for Indexed and Linguistics Entities of Information

Momie 2 - Methods and tools for micro-assembly

Mμn - Mini Micro Nano ARC Project

Assembly-Net - Precision Assembly Technologies for Mini and Micro Products

SCOPES - Systematic COncurrent design of Products, Equipments and control Systems

PhD thesis supervision

Towards Medical Flexible Instruments: a Contribution to the Study of Flexible Fluidic Actuators (Promoter of Aline De Greef, 2010)
Study of Microbubbles Mechanical Behavior, Application to the Design of an Actuated Table for Micromanipulation in Liquid Media (Promoter of Cyrille Lenders, 2010)
A Study of Liquid Bridges Dynamics: an Application to micro-Assembly (Co-promoter of Jean-Baptiste Valsamis, 2010)
Genetic Algorithm Applied to Generalized Cell Formation Problems (Promoter of Emmanuelle Vin, 2010)
Théoretical and experimental study of electrostatic forces applied to micromanipulations: influence of surface topography (Promoter of Marion Sausse Lhernould, 2008)
Contactless handling for micro-assembly: acoustic levitation (Promoter of Vincent Vandaele, 2008)
Theoretical and experimental study of capillary condensation and of its possible application in micro-assembly (Promoter of Alexandre Chau, 2007)
A contribution to microassembly: a study of capillary forces as gripping principle (Promoter of Pierre Lambert, 2005)
A Contribution to Microassembly: a Study of Capillary Forces as a gripping Principle (Promoter of Pierre Lambert, 2004)
Structured and Collaborative Search: An integrated approach to share documents among users (Promoter of Pascal Francq, 2003)
Développement d'un endoscope à vision tridimensionelle (Promoter of Benjamin Mertens, PhD in progress)
Développement d’un tenseur ligamentaire pour la mise en place assistée par navigation des prothèses totales de genou (Promoter of Benjamin Mertens, PhD in progress)

Publications •

Innovative design of hollow polymeric microneedles for transdermal drug delivery • Article •

[sausse11b] - Marion Sausse Lhernould and Alain Delchambre

Microsystem Technologies 17(10-11): 1675-1682 (2011)

Acoustic Wave Levitation: Handling of Components • Article •

[vandaele11] - Vincent Vandaele, Alain Delchambre and Pierre Lambert

Journal of Applied Physics 109: 124901 (2011)

A Generalized Cell Formation Problem Solved by an Adapted GGA • in Proceedings •

[vin10] - Emmanuelle Vin, Pascal Francq and Alain Delchambre

in MOSIM2010 (2010)

Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Influence of AFM Tip Geometry and Orientation on Capillary Force • Article •

[chau10] - Alexandre Chau, Stéphane Régnier, Alain Delchambre and Pierre Lambert

Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology 24: 2499-2510 (2010)

Les actionneurs fluidiques flexibles : caractérisation et application à la mesure de force sans capteurs • in Proceedings •

[degreef09c] - Aline De Greef, Pierre Lambert and Alain Delchambre

in 7èmes Journées Nationales de la Recherche en Robotique JNRR'09 (4-6 November 2009, Sologne, France) - poster (2009)

Flexible Fluidic Actuators: Determining Force and Position Without Force or Position Sensors • in Proceedings •

[degreef09b] - Aline De Greef, Pierre Lambert, Thomas Delwiche, Cyrille Lenders and Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of the IEEE ISAM2009 conference (17-20 November 2009, Suwon, Korea), pp. 6 (2009)

Towards Flexible Medical Instruments: Review of Flexible Fluidic Actuators • Article •

[degreef09] - Aline De Greef, Pierre Lambert and Alain Delchambre; edited by Elsevier

Precision Engineering 33: 311-321 (2009)

An adapted Genetic Algorithm to solve Generalized Cell Formation • in Proceedings •

[vin09a] - Emmanuelle Vin, Pascal Francq and Alain Delchambre

in 13th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, Elsevier (2009)

A Double Grouping Proble in Generalized Cell Formation Solved Simultaneously by an Adapted Grouping Genetic Algorithm (SIGGA) • in Proceedings •

[vin09] - Emmanuelle Vin, Pascal Francq and Alain Delchambre; edited by Prof Mitsua Gen and Prof. Gursel A. Suer

in International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing & Logistic Systems IML2009 and Symposium on Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing GT/CM2009 (2009)

Electrostatic Forces in Micromanipulation: Experimental Characterization and Simulation Including Roughness • Article •

[tam09] - Enrico Tam, Marion Sausse Lhernould, Pierre Lambert, Alain Delchambre and Marie-Paule Delplancke

Applied Surface Science 255(18): 7898-7904 (2009)

Comparison between Two Capillary Forces Models • Article •

[lambert08a] - Pierre Lambert, Alexandre Chau, Alain Delchambre and Stéphane Régnier

Langmuir 24(7): 3157 (2008)

Effects of Relative Humidity on Capillary Force and Applicability of these Effects in Micromanipulation • in Proceedings •

[bastin08] - Nicolas Bastin, Alexandre Chau, Alain Delchambre and Pierre Lambert

in a Poster at the Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems, Nice (2008)

Assembly of a micro ball-bearing using a capillary gripper and a microcomponent feeder • in Proceedings •

[lenders08] - Cyrille Lenders, Jean-Baptiste Valsamis, Maxime Desaedeleer, Alain Delchambre and Pierre Lambert

in Micro-Assembly Technologies and Applications - organized by International Precision Assembly Seminar (IPAS), Springer (2008)

Design of an Articulated Mini-Fixation Device for Proximal Interphalangeal Joint Finger Fractures • in Proceedings •

[leloup07] - Thierry Leloup, Aline De Greef, Sylvie Bantuelle, Wissam El Kazzi, Guy Mannaert, Nadine Warzée, Frédéric Schuind and Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the IEEE/EMBS Benelux Chapter - Heeze, The Netherlands (2007)

A Study of Surface Tension in Microvalves and Design Classification • Unpublished •

[lenders07] - Cyrille Lenders, Alain Delchambre and Pierre Lambert

(2007)

Electrostatic forces and micromanipulator design: on the importance of surface topography parameters • in Proceedings •

[sausse07b] - Marion Sausse Lhernould, Alain Delchambre, Stéphane Régnier and Pierre Lambert

in Proceeding of the 2007 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (2007)

Displacement of an object placed in an electric field: application to micro-assembly • in Proceedings •

[sausse07a] - Marion Sausse Lhernould, Alain Delchambre, Stéphane Régnier and Pierre Lambert

in Proceedings of the EUSPEN 7th International Conference, Bremen, Germany (2007)

Influence of geometrical parameters on capillary forces • in Proceedings •

[chau07b] - Alexandre Chau, Stéphane Régnier, Alain Delchambre and Pierre Lambert

in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Manufacturing, pp. 215-220 (2007)

Surface Tension Gripping: a New Handling Strategy for Micro-Assembly • Miscellaneous •

[lambert07a] - Pierre Lambert and Alain Delchambre

Sumbmitted to Emerald Open Access (2007)

Electrostatic forces in micromanipulations: Review of analytical models and simulations including roughness • Article •

[sausse06a] - Marion Sausse Lhernould, Alain Delchambre, Stéphane Régnier and Pierre Lambert

Applied Surface Science 253: 6203-6210 (2007)

Three dimensional model for capillary nanobridges an capillary forces • Article •

[chau07a] - Alexandre Chau, Stéphane Régnier, Alain Delchambre and Pierre Lambert

Modelling and simulation in materials science and engineering 15: 305-317 (2007)

Use of surface tension in micromanipulation • in Proceedings •

[lambert06g] - Pierre Lambert, Frank Seigneur, Sandra Koelemeijer, Jacques Jacot and Alain Delchambre

in Proc. of the 7th NCTAM Congres (8 pages), Mons (Belgium) (2006)

Surface Forces Modelling: Application to Microassembly • in Proceedings •

[lambert06f] - Pierre Lambert, Marion Sausse Lhernould, Alexandre Chau, Vincent Vandaele, Jean-Baptiste Valsamis and Alain Delchambre

in Proc. of IARP, Paris (2006)

A Minimally Invasive Surgery Actuator Based on a Flexible and Inflatable Structure • in Proceedings •

[degreef06] - Aline De Greef, Pierre Lambert and Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of the First Annual symposium of the IEEE/EMBS Benelux Chapter, 7-8 December 2006, Brussels, Belgium (2006)

An Experimental Study of Prehension Parameters During Manipulation Task • in Proceedings •

[valsamis06] - Jean-Baptiste Valsamis, Alain Delchambre and Pierre Lambert

in Proc. of the 5th International Workshop on Microfactories (2006)

Influence of surface topography in electrostatic forces simulations for microassembly • in Proceedings •

[sausse06b] - Marion Sausse Lhernould, Pierre Lambert, Alain Delchambre and Stéphane Régnier

in Proc. of the 5th International Workshop on Microfactories, Besançon, France (2006)

Surface tension gripping applied to mesoscopic case study • in Proceedings •

[lambert06e] - Pierre Lambert, Jean-Baptiste Valsamis, Frank Seigneur, Sandra Koelemeijer, Alain Delchambre and Jacques Jacot

in Proc. of the 1st CIRP - International Seminar on Assembly Systems, Stuttgart, Germany, pp. 153-158 (2006)

Towards a general three dimensional model for capillary nanobridges and capillary forces • in Proceedings •

[chau06] - Alexandre Chau, Alain Delchambre, Stéphane Régnier and Pierre Lambert

in Proc. of the 5th International Workshop on Microfactories (IWMF), Besançon, France (2006)

A Grouping Genetic Algorithm (SIMOGGAs) simultaneously to solve two grouping problems applied to the cell formation problem with alternative process plans. • in Proceedings •

[vin06] - Emmanuelle Vin, Pascal Francq and Alain Delchambre

in Group Technology/Cellular Manufacturing (GTCM 2006) (2006)

Multiple Electrodes Radiofrequency Device for hepatic tumor ablation • in Proceedings •

[simon05] - Audrey Simon, Nicolas Cauche and Alain Delchambre; edited by

in Proc. of IEEE-ISATP, Besançon (2005)

A Study of Capillary Forces as a Gripping Principle • Article •

[lambert05c] - Pierre Lambert and Alain Delchambre

Assembly Automation 25(4): 275-283 (2005)

Modelling of electrostatic forces for microassembly • in Proceedings •

[sausse05a] - Marion Sausse Lhernould, Pierre Lambert and Alain Delchambre

in Actes de la première journée sur la modélisation et l'analyse dimensionnelle (6 pages) - organized by EPFL (2005)

Parameters ruling capillary forces at the submillimetric scale • Article •

[lambert05b] - Pierre Lambert and Alain Delchambre

Langmuir 21: 9537-9543 (2005)

A general 3D model to compute capillary force • in Proceedings •

[chau05b] - Alexandre Chau, Pierre Lambert and Alain Delchambre

in Proc. Of MicroMechanics Europe 2005, Göteborg, Sweden, pp. 156-9 (2005)

Query Generation for Personalized Tracking of Information • in Proceedings •

[Gaultier05a] - Faiza Abbaci-Gaultier, Pascal Francq and Alain Delchambre; edited by Hamid R. Arabnia and Rose Joshua

in Proceedings of the 2005 Internation Conference on Internet Computing, , CSREA Press, pp. 348-353 (2005)

Modélisation de la condensation capillaire pour le micro-assemblage • in Proceedings •

[chau05] - Alexandre Chau, Pierre Lambert and Alain Delchambre

in Actes de la première journée sur la modélisation et l'anayse dimensionnelle - organized by EPFL, Lausanne, Suisse (2005)

Design Rules for a Capillary Gripper in Microassembly • in Proceedings •

[lambert05a] - Pierre Lambert and Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of the 6th IEEE ISATP'05, Montreal, Canada, pp. 67-73 (2005)

Non-contact handling in microassembly: acoustical levitation • Article •

[vandaele05] - Vincent Vandaele, Pierre Lambert and Alain Delchambre

Precision Engineering 29(4): 491-505 (2005)

Using documents assessments to build communities of interests • in Proceedings •

[Francq05] - Pascal Francq and Alain Delchambre; edited by Wojciech Cellary and Hiroshi Esaki

in 2005 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet - organized by IEEE, Trento, Italy, pp. 327-333 (2005)

A Multiple Objective Grouping Genetic Algorithm for the Cell Formation Problem with Alternative Routings • Article •

[nokey513] - Emmanuelle Vin, Pierre G. De Lit and Alain Delchambre

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing 16(2): 189-206 (2005)

Sixième Rapport d'Avancement GALILEI • Technical report •

[galilei6] - Pascal Francq, David Wartel, Valery Vandaele and Alain Delchambre

Université Libre de Bruxelles (2004)

Cinquième Rapport d'Avancement GALILEI • Technical report •

[galilei5] - Pascal Francq, David Wartel, Valery Vandaele, Nicolas Kumps and Alain Delchambre

Université Libre de Bruxelles (2004)

Catching and Releasing of Small Parts Using Capillary Forces • in Proceedings •

[frennet04] - Maxime Frennet, Pierre Lambert and Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of the Mechatronics and Robotics 2004 Conference (6 pages), Aachen, Germany (2004)

Innovative Implantable Drug Delivery System: Design Process • in Proceedings •

[croquet04] - Vincent Croquet and Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of the International Precision Assembly Seminar (IPAS), Bad Hofgastein, Austria, 11-13 February, pp. 191-198 (2004)

Capillary Forces: Use and Modelling in Micro-Assembly • in Proceedings •

[lambert04b] - Pierre Lambert and Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Manipulation and Grasping, Genoa, Italy, July 1-2 2004, pp. 29-30 (2004)

Analyse d'hyperliens en vue d'une meilleure description des profils • in Proceedings •

[vandaele04a] - Valery Vandaele, Pascal Francq and Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of JADT 2004, pp. 1117 (2004)

Création d'un espace conceptuel par analyse de données contextuelles • in Proceedings •

[Kumps04] - Nicolas Kumps, Pascal Francq and Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of JADT 2004 (2004)

Organisation d'une masse documentaire électronique présentée à des lecteurs potentiels • in Proceedings •

[Wartel04] - David Wartel, Pascal Francq and Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of JADT 2004 (2004)

Non-Contact Handling in Micro-Assembly: State of the Art • in Proceedings •

[lambert04a] - Pierre Lambert, Vincent Vandaele and Alain Delchambre; edited by Svetan Ratchev and Alain Delchambre

in Proc. of Int. Precision Assembly Seminar (IPAS), Bad Hofgastein, Austria, pp. 67-76 (2004)

Technologies - volume 1 • Manual •

[delchambre03] - Alain Delchambre and Jean-Luc Delplancke

Presses universitaires de Bruxelles (2003)

Design and Implementation of a Flexible Guiding System in Translation • in Proceedings •

[vandaele03b] - Vincent Vandaele, Pierre Lambert, Alain Delchambre and Philippe Bouillard; edited by H. Knobloch and Y. Kaminorz

in Proc. of Int. Forum on MicroNano Integration - From Science to Application, Springer, Potsdam, Germany, pp. 293-295 (2003)

Behaviour of Flexure Hinges for Use as Articulations in High Precision Mechanisms • in Proceedings •

[chau03b] - Alexandre Chau, Pierre Lambert, Philippe Bouillard and Alain Delchambre

in MicroNano Integration, Springer, Potsdam, Germany, pp. 287-288 (2003)

Troisieme Rapport d'Avancement GALILEI • Technical report •

[galilei3] - Pascal Francq, David Wartel, Nicolas Kumps, Valery Vandaele and Alain Delchambre

Université Libre de Bruxelles (2003)

Quatrième Rapport d'Avancement GALILEI • Technical report •

[galilei4] - Pascal Francq, David Wartel, Nicolas Kumps, Valery Vandaele, Stéphane Rideau and Alain Delchambre

Université Libre de Bruxelles (2003)

Integrated Design of a Product Family and its Assembly System • Book •

[nokey495] - Pierre G. De Lit and Alain Delchambre

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts (2003)

Rotational force feedback wrist • in Proceedings •

[cauche03] - Nicolas Cauche, Alain Delchambre, Patrice Rouiller, Patrick Helmer, Charles Baur and Reymond Clavel

in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Assembly and Tasks Planning (ISATP2003) (2003)

Forces Acting on Microparts: towards a numerical approach for gripper design and manipulation strategies in micro-assembly • in Proceedings •

[lambert03a] - Pierre Lambert and Alain Delchambre; edited by Svetan Ratchev and Alain Delchambre

in Proc. of the 1st Int. Precision Assembly Seminar (IPAS), Bad Hofgastein, Austria, pp. 79-84 (2003)

Capillary and Surface Tension Forces in the Manipulation of Small Parts • in Proceedings •

[lambert03b] - Pierre Lambert, Pierre Letier and Alain Delchambre

in Proc. of Int. Symposium on Assembly and Tasks Planning (ISATP), pp. 54-59 (2003)

An Integrated Approach to Product Family and Assembly System Design • Article •

[nokey488] - Pierre G. De Lit, Alain Delchambre and Jean-Michel Henrioud

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation 19(2): 324-334 (2003)

Une Approche Intégrée pour Résoudre le Problème de Formation des Cellules de Production avec des Routages Alternatifs • in Proceedings •

[nokey486] - Emmanuelle Vin, Pierre G. De Lit and Alain Delchambre

in Actes de la 4e Conférence Francophone de Modélisation et de Simulation (MOSIM'03) (2003)

Design and Performances of a One-Degree-of-Freedom Guided Nano-Actuator • Article •

[lambert03c] - Pierre Lambert, Arianna Valentini, Benoit Lagrange, Pierre G. De Lit and Alain Delchambre

Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing 19(1): 89-98 (2003)

An Assembly-Oriented Product Family Representation for Integrated Design • Article •

[DeLitRA2003] - Pierre G. De Lit, Joëlle Danloy, Alain Delchambre and Jean-Michel Henrioud

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation 19(1): 75-88 (2003)

Deuxieme Rapport d'Avancement GALILEI • Technical report •

[galilei2] - Pascal Francq, David Wartel, Julien Lamoral, Marjorie Paternostre and Alain Delchambre

Université Libre de Bruxelles (2002)

Premier Rapport d'Avancement GALILEI • Technical report •

[galilei1] - Pascal Francq, David Wartel, Julien Lamoral, Marjorie Paternostre and Alain Delchambre

Université Libre de Bruxelles (2002)

A New Combined Approach to Solve the Cell Formation Problem with Alternative Routings • Proceedings •

[nokey474] - Emmanuelle Vin, Pierre G. De Lit and Alain Delchambre

Miedzyzdroje, Poland (2002)

Computer-aided Equipment Selection in Assembly Line Design • in Proceedings •

[DeLitISR2002] - Pierre G. De Lit, Fabrice Pellichero, Brahim Rekiek and Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of the 33th International Symposium on Robotics (ISR2002), Stockholm, Sweden (2002)

Design and Performances of a Piezoelectric Stick-Slip Nanoactuator • in Proceedings •

[lambertfaim2002] - Pierre Lambert, Benoit Lagrange, Arianna Valentini, Pierre G. De Lit, Consuelo Marsico and Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM2002), Oldenburg Verlag, Dresden, Germany, pp. 582-591 (2002)

Heuristic Precedence Graph Generation for Product Families • in Proceedings •

[nokey471] - Pierre G. De Lit and Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM2002), Dresden, Germany, pp. 247-256 (2002)

Selecting Material Handling Equipment with PROMETHEE • in Collection •

[DeLitIDMMEbo200] - Pierre G. De Lit, Thomas L'Eglise, Joëlle Danloy, Brahim Rekiek and Alain Delchambre; edited by Patrick Chedmail, Gérard Cognet, Clément Fortin, Christian Mascle and Joseph Pegna

in Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering, 331-338

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (2002)

Hybrid Assembly Line Design and User's Preferences • Article •

[RekiekIJPR2002] - Brahim Rekiek, Pierre G. De Lit and Alain Delchambre

International Journal of Production research 4(5): 1095-1111 (2002)

Algorithmes génétiques de groupement et équilibrage de ligne : de la recherche opérationnelle aux applications industrielles • Miscellaneous •

[DeLitJESA2002] - Pierre G. De Lit, Brahim Rekiek and Alain Delchambre

(2002)

Une Méthodologie pour la Conception Intégrée des Familles de Produits et leur Système d'Assemblage • in Proceedings •

[DeLitJTA2001] - Pierre G. De Lit, Jean-Michel Henrioud and Alain Delchambre

in Journées techniques : L'ingénierie en Assemblage-Montage - organized by CETIM, Saint-Étienne, France, pp. 13-25 (2001)

Dealing With User's Preferences in Hybrid Assembly Line Design • in Collection •

[RekiekMCPLbo200] - Brahim Rekiek, Pierre G. De Lit, Fabrice Pellichero, Thomas L'Eglise, Patrick Fouda, Emanuel Falkenauer and Alain Delchambre; edited by Zdenek Binder

in Management and Control of Production and Logistics 2000, 989-994

Pergamon, Oxford, United Kingdom (2001)

A Product Model for Microassembly Planning • in Proceedings •

[FoudaEDA2001] - Patrick Fouda, Pierre G. De Lit and Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on engineering Design and Automation (EDA2001), Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 7-12 (2001)

Une Heuristique pour la Génération du Graphe de Précédence d'une Famille de Produits • in Proceedings •

[FoudaMOSIM2001] - Patrick Fouda, Pierre G. De Lit, Thomas L'Eglise, Brahim Rekiek and Alain Delchambre; edited by 67

in Actes de la troisième conférence francophone de modélisation et simulation, Troyes, France, pp. 127-133 (2001)

Hybrid Assembly Line Design • in Proceedings •

[RekiekISATP2001] - Brahim Rekiek and Alain Delchambre; edited by 0

in Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning (ISATP 2001), Fukuoka, Japan, pp. 73-78 (2001)

A Heuristic to Generate a Precedence Graph Between Components for a Product Family • in Proceedings •

[FoudaISATP2001] - Patrick Fouda, Joëlle Danloy, Thomas L'Eglise, Pierre G. De Lit, Brahim Rekiek and Alain Delchambre; edited by 67

in Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning (ISATP 2001), Fukuoka, Japan, pp. 43-48 (2001)

Generation of Assembly Plans for a Product Family Using a Disassembly Approach • in Proceedings •

[FoudaISATP2001b] - Patrick Fouda, Pierre G. De Lit, Brahim Rekiek and Alain Delchambre; edited by 0

in Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning (ISATP 2001), Fukuoka, Japan, pp. 226-231 (2001)

A Multicriteria Decision-Aid System for Joining Process Selection • in Proceedings •

[LEgliseISATP200] - Thomas L'Eglise, Pierre G. De Lit, Patrick Fouda, Brahim Rekiek, Benoît Raucent and Alain Delchambre; edited by 67

in Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning (ISATP 2001), Fukuoka, Japan, pp. 324-329 (2001)

Functional Entities: A Concept to Support Product Family and Assembly System Design • in Proceedings •

[nokey454] - Pierre G. De Lit, Thomas L'Eglise and Alain Delchambre; edited by 67

in Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning (ISATP 2001), Fukuoka, Japan, pp. 160-165 (2001)

A Multiple Objective Grouping Genetic Algorithm for Assembly Line Design • Article •

[RekiekJIM2001] - Brahim Rekiek, Pierre G. De Lit, Fabrice Pellichero, Thomas L'Eglise, Patrick Fouda, Emanuel Falkenauer and Alain Delchambre; edited by 67

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing 12(5): 467-485 (2001)

Assembly Planning with an Ordering Genetic Algorithm • Article •

[delit01] - Pierre G. De Lit, Patrice Latinne, Brahim Rekiek and Alain Delchambre; edited by Nikos E. Mastorakis

International Journal of Production research 39(16): 3623-3640 (2001)

Computer-aided selection of equipment and resource planning in assembly line design • Article •

[pellichero00] - Fabrice Pellichero, Brahim Rekiek, Pierre G. De Lit, Emanuel Falkenauer and Alain Delchambre

CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Systems 3(4) (2000)

Evolving to Integrate Logical and Physical Layout of Assembly Lines • in Proceedings •

[RekiekEDA2000] - Brahim Rekiek, Pierre G. De Lit, Fabrice Pellichero, Thomas L'Eglise, Patrick Fouda, Emanuel Falkenauer and Alain Delchambre; edited by 67

in Proceeding of the 4th International Conference on Engineering Design and Automation (EDA 2000), Orlando, Florida, USA (2000)

Evolutionary Approach to Design Assembly Lines • Miscellaneous •

[RekiekCOSC2000] - Brahim Rekiek, Pierre G. De Lit and Alain Delchambre

Submitted to "Global Optimization - Selected Case Studies" edited volume (2000)

Concurrent Engineering Approach to Design of Assembly Lines • in Proceedings •

[RekiekCARFOF200] - Brahim Rekiek, Pierre G. De Lit, Alain Delchambre, Fabrice Pellichero, Emanuel Falkenauer, Thomas L'Eglise and Patrick Fouda; edited by 67

in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on CAD/CAM, Robotics &Factories of the Future CARS &FOF 2000, Port of Spain, Trinidad &Tobago, pp. 333-340 (2000)

A New Philosophy for Interactive Design of Assembly Products and Their Production Lines • Unpublished •

[DeLitAssAut2000] - Pierre G. De Lit, Brahim Rekiek, Patrick Fouda, Thomas L'Eglise, André Leroy, Benoît Raucent and Alain Delchambre

Proceedings of the Delft Workshop on Assembly Automation (2000)

Applying Genetic Algorithms to Workshop Cell Decomposition • in Collection •

[DeLitCompInt200] - Pierre G. De Lit, Alain Delchambre and Emanuel Falkenauer; edited by Spyros G. Tzafestas

in Computational Intelligence in Systems and Control Design and Applications, 139-150

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (2000)

Recycling of Electric and Electronic End-of-Life Devices: Economical Assessment Study in Brussels, Belgium • in Proceedings •

[LEgliseISIEE200] - Thomas L'Eglise, Pierre G. De Lit, Alain Delchambre and Benoît Raucent

in Proceedings of the 2000 International Syposium on Electonics and the Environment - organized by IEEE, Computer Society, Technical Committee on Electronics and the Environment, San Francisco, California, pp. 149-154 (2000)

Computer Aided Design of Product Families and Their Assembly Lines • in Proceedings •

[DelchambreFAIM2] - Alain Delchambre, Pierre G. De Lit, Brahim Rekiek, Thomas L'Eglise, Jean-François Marée, Alain Spineux, Benoît Raucent, Joëlle Danloy, Frédéric Petit and André Leroy; edited by 62

in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM 2000), College Park, Maryland, pp. 260-270 (2000)

Dealing With User's Preferences in Hybrid Assembly Lines Design • in Proceedings •

[RekiekMCPL2000] - Brahim Rekiek, Pierre G. De Lit, Fabrice Pellichero, Thomas L'Eglise, Emanuel Falkenauer and Alain Delchambre; edited by 62

in Proceedings of the MCPL2000 Conference, Grenoble, France (2000)

A New Approach to Product Structures for Product Families • in Proceedings •

[DeLitIDMME2000P] - Pierre G. De Lit, Joëlle Danloy, Brahim Rekiek, Thomas L'Eglise, Alain Spineux and Alain Delchambre; edited by 62

in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering (IDMME 2000), Montreal, Canada (2000)

Grouping Genetic Algorithms and Line Layout Problems: From Academic Case Studies to Industry-Related Problems • in Proceedings •

[DeLitIDMME2000L] - Pierre G. De Lit, Brahim Rekiek, Fabrice Pellichero, Thomas L'Eglise, Emanuel Falkenauer and Alain Delchambre; edited by 62

in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering (IDMME 2000), Montreal, Canada (2000)

A Multi-criteria Decision-aid method for Material Handling Equipment Selection • in Proceedings •

[LEgliseIDMME200] - Thomas L'Eglise, Pierre G. De Lit, Joëlle Danloy, Brahim Rekiek and Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering (IDMME 2000), Montreal, Canada (2000)

Grouping genetic algorithms: an efficient method to solve the cell formation problem • Article •

[DeLitMATCOM2000] - Pierre G. De Lit, Emanuel Falkenauer and Alain Delchambre

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 51(3): 257-271 (2000)

Designing Mixed-Product Assembly Lines • Article •

[RekiekRA2000] - Brahim Rekiek, Pierre G. De Lit and Alain Delchambre; edited by 16

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation 16(3): 268-280 (2000)

Balancing and Resource Planning of Assembly Lines: The Gap Between Theory and Practice • in Proceedings •

[RekiekCPI99] - Brahim Rekiek, Fabrice Pellichero, Pierre G. De Lit, Thomas L'Eglise, Emanuel Falkenauer and Alain Delchambre; edited by 62

in Proceedings of the CPI'99 Conference, Tanger, Marocco, pp. 239-248 (1999)

Subassemblies Detection with Genetic Algorithms • in Collection •

[DeLitIDMME98Klu] - Pierre G. De Lit, Emanuel Falkenauer and Alain Delchambre; edited by Jean-Louis Batoz, Patrick Chedmail, Gérard Cognet and Clément Fortin

in Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering'98, 415-422

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (1999)

Interactive Design of Assembly Products and Their Production Lines • in Proceedings •

[DelchambreEDA99] - Alain Delchambre, Pierre G. De Lit, Brahim Rekiek, Fabrice Pellichero, Jean-François Marée, Benoît Raucent, Alain Spineux, Joëlle Danloy, Frédéric Petit and André Leroy

in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Design and Automation (EDA'99), Vancouver, Canada, pp. 862-869 (1999)

Integrated Decision-aid System for the Choice of Surface Treatments • in Proceedings •

[nokey430] - Laurent Auquière, Sandrine Kissel, Alain Delchambre and Marc Degrez

in Proceedings of the 2nd Cost 516 Tribology Symposium - organized by Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Antwerpen, Belgium, pp. 158-165 (1999)

Towards Physical Layout of Assembly Lines • in Collection •

[RekiekCSCC99] - Brahim Rekiek, Fabrice Pellichero, Pierre G. De Lit, Emanuel Falkenauer and Alain Delchambre; edited by Nikos E. Mastorakis

in Progress in Simulation, Modeling, Analysis and Synthesis of Modern Electrical and Electronic Devices and Systems

World Scientific Engineering Society Press (1999)

A Resource Planner for Hybrid Assembly Lines • in Proceedings •

[RekiekCARFOF99] - Brahim Rekiek, Fabrice Pellichero, Pierre G. De Lit, Emanuel Falkenauer and Alain Delchambre; edited by 16

in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on CAD/CAM Robotics &Factories of the Future (CAR &FOF'99), Aguas de Lindoia, Brazil, pp. MW6-18-MW6 (1999)

An Ordering Genetic Algorithm for Assembly Planning • in Proceedings •

[nokey425] - Pierre G. De Lit, Patrice Latinne, Brahim Rekiek and Alain Delchambre; edited by 16

in ICPR-15 Manufacturing For a Global Market, Limerick, Ireland, pp. 947-950 (1999)

CISAL: An Effective Tool to Design Assembly Products and Production Lines • in Collection •

[MareeFAIM99] - Jean-François Marée, Alain Spineux, Benoît Raucent, Joëlle Danloy, Frédéric Petit, André Leroy, Pierre G. De Lit, Brahim Rekiek, Fabrice Pellichero and Alain Delchambre; edited by Jalal Ashayeri, William G. Sullivan and Munir M. Ahmad

in Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing 1999, 63-73

Begell House, Inc., New York, New York (1999)

Computer-Aided Product and Assembly Line Design • in Proceedings •

[DeLitICED99] - Pierre G. De Lit, Brahim Rekiek, Fabrice Pellichero, Alain Delchambre, Joëlle Danloy, Frédéric Petit, André Leroy, Jean-François Marée, Benoît Raucent and Alain Spineux; edited by 16

in Proceedings of the 12 th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED99), Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, pp. 101-106 (1999)

Applying the Equal Piles Problem to Balance Assembly Lines • in Proceedings •

[RekiekISATP99] - Brahim Rekiek, Pierre G. De Lit, Fabrice Pellichero, Emanuel Falkenauer and Alain Delchambre; edited by 16

in Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning (ISATP99), Porto, Portugal, pp. 399-404 (1999)

A New Philosophy of Design of a Product and its Assembly Line • in Proceedings •

[DeLitISATP99] - Pierre G. De Lit, Brahim Rekiek, Fabrice Pellichero, Alain Delchambre, Joëlle Danloy, Frédéric Petit, André Leroy, Jean-François Marée, Alain Spineux and Benoît Raucent; edited by 16

in Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning (ISATP99), Porto, Portugal, pp. 381-386 (1999)

Computer-aided selection of equipment and resource planning in assembly line design • in Proceedings •

[nokey419] - Fabrice Pellichero, Brahim Rekiek, Emanuel Falkenauer, Pierre G. De Lit and Alain Delchambre; edited by 16

in Proceedings of the 32nd 1999 CIRP International Seminar on Manufacturing Systems, Leuven, Belgium, pp. 349-357 (1999)

Interactive Tool for an Optimal Equipment Selection • in Collection •

[PellicheroFAIM9] - Fabrice Pellichero, Brahim Rekiek, Emanuel Falkenauer, Pierre G. De Lit and Alain Delchambre; edited by Jalal Ashayeri, William G. Sullivan and Munir M. Ahmad

in Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing 1999, 313-323

Begell House, Inc., New York, New York (1999)

Applying Grouping Genetic Algorithms to Workshop Cell Decomposition • in Proceedings •

[DeLitSoftcom98] - Pierre G. De Lit, Emanuel Falkenauer and Alain Delchambre

in IMACS/IFAC International Symposium on Soft Computing in Engineering Applications, Athens, Greece (1998)

Recyclage des véhicules automobiles : état de la question • in Proceedings •

[DeLitD98] - Pierre G. De Lit and Alain Delchambre

in Journée "Transport et Environnement" - organized by Belgian Society of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, Mons, Belgium (1998)

Two problems in design and operation of multi-product assembly lines : line balancing and ordering variants • in Proceedings •

[RekiekFD98] - Brahim Rekiek, Emanuel Falkenauer and Alain Delchambre; edited by 62

in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on CAD/CAM Robotics &Factories of the Future CAR &FOF'98, Coimbatore, India, pp. 234-250 (1998)

Ordering Variants and Simulation in Multi-product Assembly Lines • in Proceedings •

[RekiekVRMech98] - Brahim Rekiek and Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of the VR-MECH'98 conference on Virtual Reality in Mechanical and Production Engineering - organized by Belgian Society of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, Brussels, Belgium, pp. 49-54 (1998)

Une solution pour la surinformation du Web : la collaboration entre personnes • Miscellaneous •

[Matthys98] - Benoit Matthys, Emanuel Falkenauer, Alain Delchambre, Hervé Gilson, Catherine Schoetter, Florence Robert and Hugues Bersini

(1998)

Radiation hardness of fiber-optic sensors for monitoring and remote handling applications in nuclear environments • in Proceedings •

[nokey416] - Alberto Fernandez Fernandez and Alain Delchambre

in SPIE Int. Symp. On Industrial and Environmental Monitors and Biosensors harsh environments sensors, SPIE Proceedings - organized by SPIE (1998)

Optimization of assembly line lay-out by computer-aided choice of assembly methods and line balancing • in Proceedings •

[nokey414] - Alain Delchambre, Fabrice Pellichero, Emanuel Falkenauer and Brahim Rekiek; edited by 16

in Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing 1998, Begell House, inc, Portland, USA, pp. 691-702 (1998)

An interactive tool for the choice of the assembly methods and its link with the line balancing • in Proceedings •

[PellicheroDM98] - Fabrice Pellichero, Alain Delchambre and Bertrand Mareschal; edited by 16

in Proceedings of the 31st CIRP International Seminar on Manufacturing Systems, " Networked Manufacturing : Integrated Design, Prototyping and Rapid Fabrication " - organized by University of Berkeley, San-Francisco, USA, pp. 207-212 (1998)

Recyclage des véhicules automobiles : état de la question • Article •

[nokey397] - Pierre G. De Lit and Alain Delchambre

European Journal of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering 43(4): 213-219 (1998)

Automatic Subassembly Detection • in Proceedings •

[DeLitIDMME98] - Pierre G. De Lit, Alain Delchambre and Emanuel Falkenauer; edited by 62

in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering (IDMME'98), Compiègne, France, pp. 749-758 (1998)

Interactive method for grouping operations in assembly line design • in Proceedings •

[nokey412] - Fabrice Pellichero, Alain Delchambre and Bertrand Mareschal; edited by William G. Sullivan and Munir M. Ahmad

in Proceedings of the FAIM'97 Conference., Begell House, inc, pp. 111-122 (1997)

Multi-Product Resource Planning • in Proceedings •

[nokey409] - Brahim Rekiek, Emanuel Falkenauer and Alain Delchambre; edited by 16

in 1997 IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning (ISATP97), Marina del Rey, California, pp. 115-121 (1997)

Le désassemblage des PCs • Article •

[DeLitDD97] - Pierre G. De Lit, Alain Delchambre and Thomas L. De Fazio; edited by 62

Journal des Ingénieurs 72: 3-4 (1997)

Disassembly for Recycling of Office Electronic Equipment • Article •

[nokey394] - Thomas L. De Fazio, Alain Delchambre and Pierre G. De Lit; edited by 67

European Journal of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering 42(4): 25-31 (1997)

Decision-aid tool for the choice of assembly methods in production line design • in Proceedings •

[nokey411] - Fabrice Pellichero, Alain Delchambre and Bertrand Mareschal; edited by L. J. Eshelman

in Proceedings of the Agile and Intelligent Manufacturing Symposium (1996)

An Integrated Tool for the Choice of the Assembly Method and the Design of the Logical Layout of the Line • Article •

[nokey408] - Fabrice Pellichero, Alain Delchambre, Bertrand Mareschal, Emanuel Falkenauer and Brahim Rekiek

Journal of Engineering Design and Automation (1996)

CAD Method for Industrial Assembly: Concurrent Design of Products, Equipment and Control Systems • Book •

[delchambre96] - Alain Delchambre; edited by Alain Delchambre

Wiley &Sons (1996)

Integration of tolerances in Computer-Aided Assembly Planning • Proceedings •

[nokey410] - Fabrice Pellichero and Alain Delchambre; edited by 16

(1995)

Resource Planning in the SCOPES Project • in Proceedings •

[FalkenauerD93] - Emanuel Falkenauer and Alain Delchambre; edited by Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Automotive Technology and Automation, Aachen, Germany, Automotive Automation Limited, England, pp. 295-302 (1993)

A Genetic Algorithm for Bin Packing and Line Balancing • in Proceedings •

[FalkenauerD92] - Emanuel Falkenauer and Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, pp. 1186-1192 (1992)