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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Modeling assembled-MEMS microrobots for wireless magnetic control
— Capitalizing on advances in CMOS and MEMS technologies, microrobots have the potential to dramatically change many aspects of medicine by navigating bodily fluids to perform t...
Zoltán Nagy, Olgaç Ergeneman, Jake J...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
132views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
Measuring the Magnetic and Hydrodynamic Properties of Assembled-MEMS Microrobots
— Microrobots experience physical phenomena that are difficult to model analytically and that are not completely captured with macro-scale prototypes. In this paper we present a...
Michael P. Kummer, Jake J. Abbott, Karl Vollmers, ...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
110views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Wireless control of magnetic helical microrobots using a rotating-permanent-magnet manipulator
Abstract— Magnetic helical medical microrobots are promising for use in open fluid, lumen, and soft-tissue environments and will enable minimally invasive access to hard-to-reac...
Thomas W. R. Fountain, Prem V. Kailat, Jake J. Abb...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
94views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
MagMites - Microrobots for wireless microhandling in dry and wet environments
Central to the challenge of building sub-mm robots, or microrobots, is the development of effective power storage and locomotion mechanisms. In 2007 we introduced the Wireless Reso...
Dominic R. Frutiger, Bradley Kratochvil, Bradley J...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
157views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
OctoMag: An electromagnetic system for 5-DOF wireless micromanipulation
— We demonstrate five-degree-of-freedom (5-DOF) wireless magnetic control of a fully untethered microrobot (3DOF position, 2-DOF pointing orientation). The microrobot can move t...
Bradley Kratochvil, Michael P. Kummer, Jake J. Abb...