4 papers
Transforming Remanufacturing Automation with Large Language Models: A Forward-Looking Analysis with Case Studies
Chang Liu, Sara Behdad, Prabhakar Pagilla +2
With growing concerns about resource scarcity and environmental degradation, remanufacturing of end-of-life (EoL) products within the circular economy is attracting increasing atte…
Redefining End-of-Life: Intelligent Automation for Electronics Remanufacturing Systems
Sibo Tian, Xiao Liang, Sara Behdad +1
Remanufacturing is fundamentally more challenging than traditional manufacturing due to the significant uncertainty, variability, and incompleteness inherent in end-of-life (EoL) p…
Evaluating Large and Lightweight Vision Models for Irregular Component Segmentation in E-Waste Disassembly
Xinyao Zhang, Chang Liu, Xiao Liang +2
Precise segmentation of irregular and densely arranged components is essential for robotic disassembly and material recovery in electronic waste (e-waste) recycling. This study eva…
Vision-Language-Action Models for Selective Robotic Disassembly: A Case Study on Critical Component Extraction from Desktops
Chang Liu, Sibo Tian, Sara Behdad +2
Automating disassembly of critical components from end-of-life (EoL) desktops, such as high-value items like RAM modules and CPUs, as well as sensitive parts like hard disk drives,…