4 accepted papers
Under the guidance of an integrated control and imaging system, magnetic microrobots have the capability to navigate within narrow spaces to perform tasks such as cargo delivery and manipulations. However, due to the difficulty of balancing image resolution and width of the field of view (FOV), achi
This paper presents the design, development and implementation of a novel, high power hexapole magnetic tweezer system for 3D micromanipulations. Six tapering-tipped magnetic poles are deployed in a tilted Cartesian coordinate system, with an electromagnetic coil on each for actuation, connected by…
We present fundamental progress on parallel self-assembly using large swarms of microscale particles in complex environments, controlled not by individual navigation, but by a uniform, global, external force with the same effect on each particle. Consider a 2-D grid world, in which all obstacles and
As microscale robots are becoming increasingly popular due to their potential for medical and industrial applications, various designs of microscale robotic system have been developed. However, there has not been much work on autonomous control algorithms for microscale robots in microfluidic enviro…