Motion control in magnetic microrobotics: From individual and multiple robots to swarms

L Yang, L Zhang - Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Magnetic microrobotics has undergone approximately 20 years of development, and the
robotics and control communities have contributed significant theoretical and practical …

4D printing: Enabling technology for microrobotics applications

G Adam, A Benouhiba, K Rabenorosoa… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This review demonstrates that 4D printing constitutes a key technology to enable significant
advances in microrobotics. Unlike traditional microfabrication techniques, 4D printing …

A survey on swarm microrobotics

L Yang, J Yu, S Yang, B Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The small size and wireless actuation of microrobots make them potential candidates for
minimally invasive medicine. To advance microrobots to future clinical application …

Independent control of multiple magnetic microrobots in three dimensions

E Diller, J Giltinan, M Sitti - The International Journal of …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
A major challenge for untethered microscale mobile robotics is the control of many agents in
the same workspace for distributed operation. In this work, we present a new method to …

Roads to smart artificial microswimmers

ACH Tsang, E Demir, Y Ding… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial microswimmers offer exciting opportunities for biomedical applications. The goal of
these synthetics is to swim like natural micro‐organisms through biological environments …

Spatially selective remote magnetic actuation of identical helical micromachines

J Rahmer, C Stehning, B Gleich - Science Robotics, 2017 - science.org
Magnetic micromachines can be controlled remotely inside the human body by application
of external magnetic fields, making them promising candidates for minimally invasive local …

Micro-scale mobile robotics

E Diller, M Sitti - Foundations and Trends® in Robotics, 2013 - nowpublishers.com
The field of microrobotics has seen tremendous advances in recent years. The principles
governing the design of such submillimeter scale robots rely on an understanding of …

Ultrasonic steering wheels: Turning micromotors by localized acoustic microstreaming

Q Gao, Z Yang, R Zhu, J Wang, P Xu, J Liu, X Chen… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The ability to steer micromotors in specific directions and at precise speeds is highly desired
for their use in complex environments. However, a generic steering strategy that can be …

Surface-chemistry-mediated control of individual magnetic helical microswimmers in a swarm

X Wang, C Hu, L Schurz, C De Marco, X Chen… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Magnetic helical microswimmers, also known as artificial bacterial flagella (ABFs), perform
3D navigation in various liquids under low-strength rotating magnetic fields by converting …

[HTML][HTML] Selective and Independent Control of Microrobots in a Magnetic Field: A Review

M Wang, T Wu, R Liu, Z Zhang, J Liu - Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the unique advantages of untethered connections and a high level of safety,
magnetic actuation is a commonly used technique in microrobotics for propelling …