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 …

Control and autonomy of microrobots: Recent progress and perspective

J Jiang, Z Yang, A Ferreira… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
After decades of development, microrobots have exhibited great application potential in the
biomedical field, such as minimally invasive surgery, drug delivery, and bio‐sensing …

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 …

Recent advances in nano‐and micromotors

M Fernández‐Medina… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nano‐and micromotors are fascinating objects that can navigate in complex fluidic
environments. Their active motion can be triggered by external power sources or they can …

Image-integrated magnetic actuation systems for localization and remote actuation of medical miniature robots: A survey

X Du, J Yu - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic miniature robots are promising tools for minimally invasive and noninvasive
therapy. Constructing systems with actuation–perception loops is an essential step to …

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 …

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 …

Leader–follower formation control of magnetically actuated millirobots for automatic navigation

C Huang, T Xu, X Wu - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiple magnetically actuated small-scale robots enable cooperative tasks and have great
potential for many applications. In general, magnetic robots behave in the same way with the …

[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 …

In Vitro Design Investigation of a Rotating Helical Magnetic Swimmer for Combined 3-D Navigation and Blood Clot Removal

J Leclerc, H Zhao, D Bao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a miniature magnetic swimmer and a control apparatus able to perform
both 3-D path following and blood clot removal. The robots are 2.5 mm in diameter, 6 mm in …