With the manufacturing of electronic products getting and fresh impetus under the Government’s Make in India initiative, the demand for complex soldering skills has gone up. Surface mount hand soldering is a complex bimanual task that uses a tweezer tool and a soldering iron for soldering a surface mount component on a printed circuit board. As this requires a lot of practice to master, our engineers developed a custom 5 DoF haptic simulator with a sensorized tweezer end effector which couples with a virtual simulation environment where the students learn how to solder different virtual SMDs onto a virtual circuit board.

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