Colloidal motors 101: a beginner's guide to colloidal motor research

X Chen, C Zhou, W Wang - Chemistry–An Asian Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The research progress in colloidal motors, synthetic colloids that convert environmental
energy and swim in water, has attracted much attention in recent years. Yet, its rapid …

3-D path following of helical microswimmers with an adaptive orientation compensation model

X Wu, J Liu, C Huang, M Su, T Xu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Controlling magnetic microswimmers toward 3-D manipulation tasks has received
considerable attention. Although related studies on manipulating helical microswimmers …

[HTML][HTML] A review of magnetically driven swimming microrobots: Material selection, structure design, control method, and applications

H Liu, Q Guo, W Wang, T Yu, Z Yuan, Z Ge… - Reviews on Advanced …, 2023 - degruyter.com
Magnetically driven swimming microrobot is a typical one in the family of microrobots and
they can achieve navigation and manipulation in low Reynolds number biomedical …

Visual servoing of miniature magnetic film swimming robots for 3-D arbitrary path following

C Huang, T Xu, J Liu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft swimming microrobots that can be powered and guided remotely by magnetic field
show greater potential for numerous applications than traditional rigid counterparts, due to …

3-D autonomous manipulation system of helical microswimmers with online compensation update

J Liu, X Wu, C Huang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Steering microswimmers toward 3-D autonomous manipulation tasks has received
extensive attention. Our previous works have accomplished autonomously manipulating …

Model predictive control of magnetic helical swimmers in two-dimensional plane

J Liu, T Xu, X Wu - IEEE Transactions on Automation Science …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic micro/mini-swimmers have a great potential application in biomedical research
and have gained broad attention. Recent research studies focus on the automatic control …

Discrete-time optimal control of miniature helical swimmers in horizontal plane

T Xu, J Liu, C Huang, T Sun… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microswimmer and miniswimmer toward precision-targeted medicine have attracted
extensive attention recently. We have developed an autonomous manipulation approach for …

Bilateral control simulations for a pair of magnetically-coupled robotic arm and bacterium for in vivo applications

AF Tabak - Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics, 2020 - Springer
There are several in vivo and in vitro control performances with artificial micro-swimmers;
however, control of a biohybrid micro-swimmer using an open kinematic chain remains fairly …

[HTML][HTML] Nature-inspired miniaturized magnetic soft robotic swimmers

R Pramanik, R Verstappen, PR Onck - Applied Physics Reviews, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
State-of-the-art biomedical applications such as targeted drug delivery and laparoscopic
surgery are extremely challenging because of the small length scales, the requirements of …

Automatic Control of Magnetic Helical Microrobots for On-Plane Docking

F Zhao, W Rong, L Wang, L Sun - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Docking is a common step in magnetic helical microrobot operations. However, the
boundary effect causes helical microrobots to drift laterally near the container bottom. The …