Towards Measuring the Ease of Robotic Disassembly

This paper addresses the use of robotics and AI for recycling and remanufacturing low-value components. To make the robotic disassembly of low-value components viable, such components should be easy to disassemble. This initial work provides simple measures associated to ease of disassembly by robots that may be used for redesigning components. The disassembly consists of three phases: Identification, extraction, and disassembly. The paper focuses on the extraction phase of the disassembly.