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The Rotation of Microrobot Simplifies 3D Control Inside Microchannels.

ABSTRACT: This paper focuses on the control of rotating helical microrobots inside microchannels. We first use a 50 ?m long and 5 ?m in diameter helical robot to prove that the proximity of the channel walls create a perpendicular force on the robot. This force makes the robot orbit around the channel center line. We also demonstrate experimentally that this phenomenon simplifies the robot control by guiding it on a channel even if the robot propulsion is not perfectly aligned with the channel direction. We then use numerical simulations, validated by real experimental cases, to show different implications on the microrobot control of this orbiting phenomenon. First, the robot can be centered in 3D inside an in-plane microchannel only by controlling its horizontal direction (yaw angle). This means that a rotating microrobot can be precisely controlled along the center of a microfluidic channel only by using a standard 2D microscopy technology. Second, the robot horizontal (yaw) and vertical (pitch) directions can be controlled to follow a 3D evolving channel only with a 2D feedback. We believe this could lead to simplify imaging systems for the potential in vivo integration of such microrobots.

SUBMITTER: Barbot A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5765130 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The Rotation of Microrobot Simplifies 3D Control Inside Microchannels.

Barbot Antoine A Decanini Dominique D Hwang Gilgueng G

Scientific reports 20180111 1

This paper focuses on the control of rotating helical microrobots inside microchannels. We first use a 50 μm long and 5 μm in diameter helical robot to prove that the proximity of the channel walls create a perpendicular force on the robot. This force makes the robot orbit around the channel center line. We also demonstrate experimentally that this phenomenon simplifies the robot control by guiding it on a channel even if the robot propulsion is not perfectly aligned with the channel direction. ...[more]

PMID: 29323196

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