Magnetic actuation systems for miniature robots: A review

Z Yang, L Zhang - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A magnetic field, which is transparent and relatively safe to biological tissue, is a powerful
tool for remote actuation and wireless control of magnetic devices. Furthermore, miniature …

A review on flexible robotic systems for minimally invasive surgery

OM Omisore, S Han, J Xiong, H Li, Z Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, flexible robotic systems are developed to enhance minimally invasive
interventions on internal organs located in confined areas of human body. These surgical …

Multimodal locomotion and cargo transportation of magnetically actuated quadruped soft microrobots

C Huang, Z Lai, X Wu, T Xu - Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2022 - spj.science.org
Untethered microrobots have attracted extensive attention due to their potential for
biomedical applications and micromanipulation at the small scale. Soft microrobots are of …

Independent control strategy of multiple magnetic flexible millirobots for position control and path following

T Xu, C Huang, Z Lai, X Wu - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetically actuated small-scale robots have great potential for numerous applications in
remote, confined, or enclosed environments. Multiple small-scale robots enable cooperation …

Sequential magneto‐actuated and optics‐triggered biomicrorobots for targeted cancer therapy

J Xing, T Yin, S Li, T Xu, A Ma, Z Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Micro/nanorobots have the potential to be remotely propelled and manipulated in complex
biological fluid and organ tissue. However, the combination of the sophisticated …

Multimodal locomotion control of needle-like microrobots assembled by ferromagnetic nanoparticles

T Xu, Z Hao, C Huang, J Yu, L Zhang… - … /ASME Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microrobots have great potential for multiple applications, such as targeted drug delivery
and micromanipulation. Several kinds of microrobots assembled by nanoparticles have …

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 …

Recent advances on underwater soft robots

J Qu, Y Xu, Z Li, Z Yu, B Mao, Y Wang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The ocean environment has enormous uncertainty due to the influence of complex waves
and undercurrents. The human beings are limited in their abilities to detect and utilize …

AI-enhanced biomedical micro/nanorobots in microfluidics

H Dong, J Lin, Y Tao, Y Jia, L Sun, WJ Li, H Sun - Lab on a Chip, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Human beings encompass sophisticated microcirculation and microenvironments,
incorporating a broad spectrum of microfluidic systems that adopt fundamental roles in …

[HTML][HTML] Soft robotics: Morphology and morphology-inspired motion strategy

F Xu, H Wang - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2021 - ieee-jas.net
Robotics has aroused huge attention since the 1950s. Irrespective of the uniqueness that
industrial applications exhibit, conventional rigid robots have displayed noticeable …