Untethered Miniature Soft Robots

2024-02-14

Author : Li Zhang
Release : 2024-02-14
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Download or read book Untethered Miniature Soft Robots written by Li Zhang. This book was released on 2024-02-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference on achieving contactless manipulation of soft robots, detailing high level concepts and perspectives and technical skills of soft robots Untethered Miniature Soft Robots: Materials, Fabrications, and Applications introduces the emerging field of miniature soft robots and summarizes the recent rapid development in the field to date, describing different types of functional materials to build miniature soft robots, such as silicone elastomer, carbon-based materials, hydrogels, liquid crystal polymer, flexible ferrofluid, and liquid metal, and covering the material properties, fabrication strategies, and functionalities in soft robots together with their underlying mechanisms. The book discusses magnetically, thermally, optically, and chemically actuated soft robots in depth, explores the many specific applications of miniature soft robots in biomedical, environmental, and electrical fields and summarizes the development of miniature soft robots based on intelligent materials, actuation mechanisms, soft matter, fabrication strategies, actuation, and locomotion principles. In closing, the text summarizes the opportunities and challenges faced by miniature soft robots, providing expert insight into the possible futures of this field. Written by four highly qualified academics, Untethered Miniature Soft Robots covers sample topics such as: Soft elastomer-based robots with programmable magnetization profiles and untethered soft robots based on template-aiding Working mechanisms of carbon-based materials, covering light-induced expansion and shrinkage, and humidity-induced deformation Designing microscale building blocks, modular assembly of building blocks based on Denavit-Hartenberg (DH) matrix, and inverse and forward design of modular morphing systems Material designs of magnetic liquid crystal elastomers (LCE) systems, multiple-stimuli responsiveness of magnetic LCE systems, and adaptive locomotion of magnetic LCE-based robots Controllable deformation and motion behaviors, as well as applications of ferrofluids droplet robots (FDRs), including cargo capturing, object sorting, liquid pumping/mixing, and liquid skin. Providing highly detailed and up-to-date coverage of the topic, Untethered Miniature Soft Robots serves as an invaluable and highly comprehensive reference for researchers working in this promising field across a variety of disciplines, including materials scientists, mechanical and electronics engineers, polymer chemists, and biochemists.

Untethered Small-Scale Robots for Biomedical Applications

2023-06-12 Technology & Engineering

Author : Haojian Lu
Release : 2023-06-12
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Download or read book Untethered Small-Scale Robots for Biomedical Applications written by Haojian Lu. This book was released on 2023-06-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Untethered Small-Scale Robots for Biomedical Applications introduces the principle, design, fabrication and application of small-scale robots for biomedical applications. Robots in the scale of nanometer, micrometer and millimeter are described in detail, along with their impact on the field of biomedical engineering. The selected examples of robots across different scales are of the most essential and innovative designs in a small-scale robot with various application settings for biomechanics characterization, drug delivery and surgical procedure. The representative robots represented operate robustly and safely in complex physiological environments where they have a transformative impact in bioengineering and healthcare. This book will lead the audience to the field of small-scale robots through the description of the physics in the small scale, design and fabrication of small-scale robots, and how these robots may impact the future of biomedical studies and minimally-invasive surgical procedures. Provides a comprehensive review of the current advances in biomedical untethered mobile milli/microrobots Describes the most representative small-scale robots in detail, including design, fabrication, control and function aspects Presents the imminent potential impacts of biomedical microrobots Discusses the existing challenges and emerging concepts associated with designing such a miniaturized robot for operation inside a biological environment for biomedical applications

3D Printing and Sustainable Product Development

2023-09-29 Technology & Engineering

Author : Mir Irfan Ul Haq
Release : 2023-09-29
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Download or read book 3D Printing and Sustainable Product Development written by Mir Irfan Ul Haq. This book was released on 2023-09-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents recent advances such as industry 4.0, 4D printing, 3D material mechanical characterization, and printing of advanced materials. Highlights the interdisciplinary aspects of 3D printing particularly in biomedical, and aerospace engineering. Discusses mechanical and physical properties of 3D printed parts, material aspects, and process parameters. Showcases topics such as rapid prototyping, medical equipment design, and biomimetics related to the role of 3D printing in new product development. Covers applications of 3D printing in diverse areas including automotive, aerospace engineering, medical, and marine industry.

Remote Manipulation of Untethered Bots in Soft Media

2022 Electrical engineering

Author : Yulia Malkova
Release : 2022
Genre : Electrical engineering
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Download or read book Remote Manipulation of Untethered Bots in Soft Media written by Yulia Malkova. This book was released on 2022. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific and engineering literature extensively discusses untethered miniature devices, also called bots, as those parts of medical robotic systems that can be manipulated remotely within the human body. There is clear evidence that this topic has gained significant traction based on the spike in publication over the past seven years (Koleoso et al., 2020). Robotic systems that employ micro- and millimeter size bots are thought to have numerous potential medical applications including drug delivery (Jang et al., 2019), localized heating or cooling, cessation of bleeding, clearing of occlusions, establishing a diagnosis based on sensing or biopsy, and minimally invasive surgeries. Most studies focuses on the actuation and control of such bots in fluid environment, typically at low Reynolds numbers. Yet, many medical applications would involve soft tissues, rather than fluids. While controlling tethered devices, such as needles, based on appropriate models of interaction with tissue has been the subject of considerable interest. However, no similar work has been published for untethered miniature devices. The goal of the present thesis is to develop trajectory planning and control methods for untethered solid millimeter size bots in soft tissue under the action of magnetic force. This study employs a recently developed model describing the interaction of untethered bots with soft materials during bot motion by implementing a numerical simulation of the model. Given the highly non-linear and past trajectory (history) dependent nature of the interaction with the medium, in addition to significant model parameter variability throughout soft media, the present thesis hypothesizes that a trajectory control based on the so-called Sliding Mode Control (SMC) method will make it possible for a bot to follow a large class of practical trajectories accurately. Numerical simulations of the proposed SMC method were conducted and experimentally validated for a class of trajectories that could be well approximated by circular and straight segments. The robustness of the proposed method was analyzed numerically by simulating trajectories in media with random variations of various model parameters as well as in the presence of significant delays in the feedback signal used to estimate the bot position. All the work carried out in this thesis applies to bots that are spherical making it possible to simplify the model, trajectory control, and their experimental validation. Furthermore, experimental validations are limited in this work to bots that are on the order of millimeters in diameter. While smaller bots may be of interest in medicine, they would be significantly harder to actuate and image during experimental validation experiments. At the same time, millimeter size bots are commensurate with the typical dimensions of needles widely employed in medical applications. Keywords: Medical Robotics, Micro Robots, Motion control, Robophysics, Soft Media, Untethered Device

Mobile Microrobotics

2017-06-16 Technology & Engineering

Author : Metin Sitti
Release : 2017-06-16
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Download or read book Mobile Microrobotics written by Metin Sitti. This book was released on 2017-06-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first textbook on micron-scale mobile robotics, introducing the fundamentals of design, analysis, fabrication, and control, and drawing on case studies of existing approaches. Progress in micro- and nano-scale science and technology has created a demand for new microsystems for high-impact applications in healthcare, biotechnology, manufacturing, and mobile sensor networks. The new robotics field of microrobotics has emerged to extend our interactions and explorations to sub-millimeter scales. This is the first textbook on micron-scale mobile robotics, introducing the fundamentals of design, analysis, fabrication, and control, and drawing on case studies of existing approaches. The book covers the scaling laws that can be used to determine the dominant forces and effects at the micron scale; models forces acting on microrobots, including surface forces, friction, and viscous drag; and describes such possible microfabrication techniques as photo-lithography, bulk micromachining, and deep reactive ion etching. It presents on-board and remote sensing methods, noting that remote sensors are currently more feasible; studies possible on-board microactuators; discusses self-propulsion methods that use self-generated local gradients and fields or biological cells in liquid environments; and describes remote microrobot actuation methods for use in limited spaces such as inside the human body. It covers possible on-board powering methods, indispensable in future medical and other applications; locomotion methods for robots on surfaces, in liquids, in air, and on fluid-air interfaces; and the challenges of microrobot localization and control, in particular multi-robot control methods for magnetic microrobots. Finally, the book addresses current and future applications, including noninvasive medical diagnosis and treatment, environmental remediation, and scientific tools.

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