3 accepted papers
This video presents a microfluidic phenomenon called “Virtual Vortex Gear (VVG)” and an application of it. The video contains 4 parts and is described as follows: The 1st part shows an application of VVG as a controllable valve in a micro fluidic system and the on and off of the valve are controlled…
This paper reports an ultra-fast manipulation on micro-scale objects in a microfluidic channel. The objects are manipulated in simple harmonic motions and the manipulation speed has been achieved up to 3000 Hz. While the maximum speed was only about 130 Hz in previous works, the speed is advanced wi…
Recently, many studies have been conducted on soft in-pipe robots, which are expected to work in pipes where ordinary rigid robots cannot work. In this paper, we present a new soft in-pipe locomotive device that consists of six braided tubes. The tubes of the device are inflated by pneumatic power w…