Formation Techniques Used in Shape-Forming Microrobotic Systems with Multiple Microrobots: A Review

M Konara, A Mudugamuwa, S Dodampegama… - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Multiple robots are used in robotic applications to achieve tasks that are impossible to
perform as individual robotic modules. At the microscale/nanoscale, controlling multiple …

Closed-Loop Control for a Heterogeneous Group of Magnetically-Actuated Microrobots

LE Beaver, ZH Shah, M Sokolich… - … and Robotics at …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of magnetically-actuated microrobots is of great interest for emerging
medical applications due to their inherent safety, low cost to manufacture, and flexibility. In …

Microrobot collectives with reconfigurable morphologies, behaviors, and functions

G Gardi, S Ceron, W Wang, K Petersen… - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Mobile microrobots, which can navigate, sense, and interact with their environment, could
potentially revolutionize biomedicine and environmental remediation. Many self-organizing …

[HTML][HTML] Microassembly: A Review on Fundamentals, Applications and Recent Developments

Y An, B He, Z Ma, Y Guo, GZ Yang - Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Microassembly platforms have attracted significant attention recently because of their
potential for developing microsystems and devices for a wide range of applications. Despite …

Controlling multiple microrobots: recent progress and future challenges

S Chowdhury, W Jing, DJ Cappelleri - Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics, 2015 - Springer
Robots the size of several microns have numerous application in medicine, biology, and
manufacturing. However, simultaneous control of multiple robots at this scale is difficult since …

Multi‐dimensional micro/nanorobots with collective behaviors

B Wang, Y Lu - SmartMat, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, the collective behavior of micro/nanorobots has shown unprecedented potential in
biomedicine and environmental remediation. Collective behavior can work more efficiently …

A review of single-cell microrobots: classification, driving methods and applications

Y Wang, J Chen, G Su, J Mei, J Li - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Single-cell microrobots are new microartificial devices that use a combination of single cells
and artificial devices, with the advantages of small size, easy degradation and ease of …

Enhanced locomotion of shape morphing microrobots by surface coating

S Ji, X Li, Q Chen, P Lv, H Duan - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mobile microrobots with shape morphing capability show great advantages for conducting
tasks in complex environments. Combination of magnetically driven locomotion and stimuli …

Planning and control for microassembly of structures composed of stress-engineered MEMS microrobots

BR Donald, CG Levey, I Paprotny… - … International journal of …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
We present control strategies that implement planar microassembly using groups of stress-
engineered MEMS microrobots (MicroStressBots) controlled through a single global control …

Micro-/nanorobots

BJ Nelson, L Dong, F Arai - Springer Handbook of Robotics, 2016 - Springer
The field of microrobotics covers the robotic manipulation of objects with dimensions in the
millimeter to micron range as well as the design and fabrication of autonomous robotic …