Automatic navigation of microswarms for dynamic obstacle avoidance

Y Liu, H Chen, Q Zou, X Du, Y Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Control and navigation of microrobotic swarms have drawn extensive attention recently.
Avoiding dynamic obstacles using swarms is one of the major challenges that still remain …

Programmable generation and motion control of a snakelike magnetic microrobot swarm

H Xie, X Fan, M Sun, Z Lin, Q He… - IEEE/ASME Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new method for programmable generation and motion control of a snakelike magnetic
microrobot swarm (SMS) is presented. The SMS is assembled from peanut-shaped hematite …

Magnetic navigation system composed of dual permanent magnets for accurate position and posture control of a capsule endoscope

S Kim, S Bae, W Lee, G Jang - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We developed a magnetic navigation system (MNS) composed of a magnetic field control
part and a robot arm part to precisely control the position and posture of a capsule …

Separable and recombinable magnetic robot for robotic endovascular intervention

J Sa, J Park, E Jung, N Kim, D Lee… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study presents a separable and recombinable magnetic robot (SRMR) to deliver and
retrieve an untethered magnetic robot (UMR) to a target vascular lesion safely and …

Advances in Nanoarchitectonics: A Review of “Static” and “Dynamic” Particle Assembly Methods

K Eftekhari, BV Parakhonskiy, D Grigoriev, AG Skirtach - Materials, 2024 - mdpi.com
Particle assembly is a promising technique to create functional materials and devices from
nanoscale building blocks. However, the control of particle arrangement and orientation is …

Discrete-time optimal control of electromagnetic coil systems for generation of dynamic magnetic fields with high accuracy

L Yang, E Yu, CI Vong, L Zhang - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electromagnetic coil systems (ECSs) have been widely used for actuation and motion
control of magnetic micro/nanorobots. In this paper, two typical ECSs with different system …

Development and verification of a micro magnetically guided helical robot with active locomotion and steering capabilities for guidewires

P Li, Z Wang, C Ye, D Fang, J Zhang, C Liang - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2024 - Elsevier
As a fundamental instrument in vascular interventional surgery, guidewires inherently face
limitations when navigating through complex curved blood vessel bifurcations due to their …

An On-Wall-Rotating Strategy for Effective Upstream Motion of Untethered Millirobot: Principle, Design, and Demonstration

L Yang, T Zhang, H Huang, H Ren… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Untethered miniature robots that can access narrow and harsh environments in the body
show great potential for future biomedical applications. Despite the many types of millirobot …

Development and verification of mechanism for enhancement of steering angle and active locomotion for magnetic micro active-guidewire

GH Jeon, SH Kim - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, the authors developed a novel active guidewire including a spiral-type
magnetic microrobot and ball joint to realize active locomotion and improve the steering …

[HTML][HTML] An intravascular helical magnetic millirobot with a gripper mechanism performing object delivery and collecting motions actuated by precession rotating …

HJ Lee, SM Jeon - AIP Advances, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
This research proposes a novel intravascular helical magnetic millirobot (IHMM) that can
conduct various functional motions such as helical navigating, unclogging, object delivery …