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 …

Magnetic helical micro-/nanomachines: Recent progress and perspective

Y Dong, L Wang, V Iacovacci, X Wang, L Zhang… - Matter, 2022 - cell.com
Inspired by bacterial flagella, helical micro-/nanomachines (H-MNMs) can achieve
controllable 3D movement by converting rotational motion to translation in a corkscrew …

IRONSperm: Sperm-templated soft magnetic microrobots

V Magdanz, ISM Khalil, J Simmchen, GP Furtado… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
We develop biohybrid magnetic microrobots by electrostatic self-assembly of nonmotile
sperm cells and magnetic nanoparticles. Incorporating a biological entity into microrobots …

Bio-inspired magnetic swimming microrobots for biomedical applications

KE Peyer, L Zhang, BJ Nelson - Nanoscale, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Microrobots have been proposed for future biomedical applications in which they are able to
navigate in viscous fluidic environments. Nature has inspired numerous microrobotic …

3D Motion Manipulation for Micro‐and Nanomachines: Progress and Future Directions

H Huang, S Yang, Y Ying, X Chen… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the past decade, micro‐and nanomachines (MNMs) have made outstanding
achievements in the fields of targeted drug delivery, tumor therapy, microsurgery, biological …

Five-degree-of-freedom manipulation of an untethered magnetic device in fluid using a single permanent magnet with application in stomach capsule endoscopy

AW Mahoney, JJ Abbott - The International Journal of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper demonstrates magnetic three-degree-of-freedom (3-DOF) closed-loop position
and 2-DOF open-loop orientation control of a mockup magnetic capsule endoscope in fluid …

Magnetite nanostructured porous hollow helical microswimmers for targeted delivery

X Yan, Q Zhou, J Yu, T Xu, Y Deng… - Advanced Functional …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Bacteria‐inspired magnetic helical micro‐/nanoswimmers can be actuated and steered in a
fuel‐free manner using a low‐strength rotating magnetic field, generating remotely …

Magnetic actuation based motion control for microrobots: An overview

T Xu, J Yu, X Yan, H Choi, L Zhang - Micromachines, 2015 - mdpi.com
Untethered, controllable, mobile microrobots have been proposed for numerous
applications, ranging from micro-manipulation, in vitro tasks (eg, operation of microscale …

Magnetic helical micromachines

KE Peyer, S Tottori, F Qiu, L Zhang… - … –A European Journal, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Helical microrobots have the potential to be used in a variety of application areas, such as in
medical procedures, cell biology, or lab‐on‐a‐chip. They are powered and steered …

Image-based visual servoing of helical microswimmers for planar path following

T Xu, Y Guan, J Liu, X Wu - IEEE Transactions on Automation …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetically actuated microswimmers have attracted researchers to investigate their
swimming characteristics and controlled actuation. Although plenty of studies on actuating …