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Automatic Path Tracking and Target Manipulation of a Magnetic Microrobot
Recently, wireless controlled microrobots have been studied because of their great development prospects in the biomedical field. Electromagnetic microrobots have the advantages of control agility and good precision, and thus, have received much attention. Most of the control methods for controlling...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6189763/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30404383 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi7110212 |
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author | Wang, Jingyi Jiao, Niandong Tung, Steve Liu, Lianqing |
author_facet | Wang, Jingyi Jiao, Niandong Tung, Steve Liu, Lianqing |
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description | Recently, wireless controlled microrobots have been studied because of their great development prospects in the biomedical field. Electromagnetic microrobots have the advantages of control agility and good precision, and thus, have received much attention. Most of the control methods for controlling a magnetic microrobot use manual operation. Compared to the manual method, the automatic method will increase the accuracy and stability of locomotion and manipulation of microrobots. In this paper, we propose an electromagnetic manipulation system for automatically controlling the locomotion and manipulation of microrobots. The microrobot can be automatically controlled to track various paths by using visual feedback with an expert control algorithm. A positioning accuracy test determined that the position error ranges from 92 to 293 μm, which is less than the body size (600 μm) of the microrobot. The velocity of the microrobot is nearly proportional to the applied current in the coils, and can reach 5 mm/s. As a micromanipulation tool, the microrobot is used to manipulate microspheres and microgears with the automatic control method. The results verify that the microrobot can drag, place, and drive the microstructures automatically with high precision. The microrobot is expected to be a delicate micromachine that could play its role in microfluidics and blood vessels, where conventional instruments are hard to reach. |
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spelling | pubmed-61897632018-11-01 Automatic Path Tracking and Target Manipulation of a Magnetic Microrobot Wang, Jingyi Jiao, Niandong Tung, Steve Liu, Lianqing Micromachines (Basel) Article Recently, wireless controlled microrobots have been studied because of their great development prospects in the biomedical field. Electromagnetic microrobots have the advantages of control agility and good precision, and thus, have received much attention. Most of the control methods for controlling a magnetic microrobot use manual operation. Compared to the manual method, the automatic method will increase the accuracy and stability of locomotion and manipulation of microrobots. In this paper, we propose an electromagnetic manipulation system for automatically controlling the locomotion and manipulation of microrobots. The microrobot can be automatically controlled to track various paths by using visual feedback with an expert control algorithm. A positioning accuracy test determined that the position error ranges from 92 to 293 μm, which is less than the body size (600 μm) of the microrobot. The velocity of the microrobot is nearly proportional to the applied current in the coils, and can reach 5 mm/s. As a micromanipulation tool, the microrobot is used to manipulate microspheres and microgears with the automatic control method. The results verify that the microrobot can drag, place, and drive the microstructures automatically with high precision. The microrobot is expected to be a delicate micromachine that could play its role in microfluidics and blood vessels, where conventional instruments are hard to reach. MDPI 2016-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6189763/ /pubmed/30404383 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi7110212 Text en © 2016 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Wang, Jingyi Jiao, Niandong Tung, Steve Liu, Lianqing Automatic Path Tracking and Target Manipulation of a Magnetic Microrobot |
title | Automatic Path Tracking and Target Manipulation of a Magnetic Microrobot |
title_full | Automatic Path Tracking and Target Manipulation of a Magnetic Microrobot |
title_fullStr | Automatic Path Tracking and Target Manipulation of a Magnetic Microrobot |
title_full_unstemmed | Automatic Path Tracking and Target Manipulation of a Magnetic Microrobot |
title_short | Automatic Path Tracking and Target Manipulation of a Magnetic Microrobot |
title_sort | automatic path tracking and target manipulation of a magnetic microrobot |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6189763/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30404383 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi7110212 |
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