An overview of micronanoswarms for biomedical applications

H Chen, H Zhang, T Xu, J Yu - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Micronanoswarms have attracted extensive attention worldwide due to their great promise in
biomedical applications. The collective behaviors among thousands, or even millions, of tiny …

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 …

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 …

Ionic shape-morphing microrobotic end-effectors for environmentally adaptive targeting, releasing, and sampling

Z Zheng, H Wang, L Dong, Q Shi, J Li, T Sun… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Shape-morphing uses a single actuation source for complex-task-oriented multiple patterns
generation, showing a more promising way than reconfiguration, especially for microrobots …

Reinforcement learning control of a flexible two-link manipulator: An experimental investigation

W He, H Gao, C Zhou, C Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article discusses the control design and experiment validation of a flexible two-link
manipulator (FTLM) system represented by ordinary differential equations (ODEs). A …

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 …

Robot policy improvement with natural evolution strategies for stable nonlinear dynamical system

Y Hu, G Chen, Z Li, A Knoll - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robot learning through kinesthetic teaching is a promising way of cloning human behaviors,
but it has its limits in the performance of complex tasks with small amounts of data, due to …

Development and motion control of biomimetic underwater robots: A survey

R Wang, S Wang, Y Wang, L Cheng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Biomimetic underwater robots have attracted considerable research attention globally,
owing to their quieter actuations, higher propulsion efficiency, and stronger maneuverability …

[HTML][HTML] Trimer-like microrobots with multimodal locomotion and reconfigurable capabilities

S Yu, T Li, F Ji, S Zhao, K Liu, Z Zhang, W Zhang… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite the growing interest in the motion mechanisms and application potential of
individual active colloids/particles in micro/nanorobotics, their aggregation for higher …

Effect of hip assistance modes on metabolic cost of walking with a soft exoskeleton

W Cao, C Chen, H Hu, K Fang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Understanding the effects of different hip assistance modes is a fundamental step in the
process of designing hip assistance devices and controllers that can provide better …