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most citedAcoustic Communication for Medical Nanorobots

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cs.RO2021★ 2 cited

Acoustic Power Management by Swarms of Microscopic Robots

Tad Hogg

Microscopic robots in the body could harvest energy from ultrasound to provide on-board control of autonomous behaviors such as measuring and communicating diagnostic information a…

cs.RO2018

Identifying Vessel Branching from Fluid Stresses on Microscopic Robots

Tad Hogg

Objects moving in fluids experience patterns of stress on their surfaces determined by the geometry of nearby boundaries. Flows at low Reynolds number, as occur in microscopic vess…

cs.RO2018★ 2 cited

Stress-Based Navigation for Microscopic Robots in Viscous Fluids

Tad Hogg

Objects moving in fluids experience patterns of stress on their surfaces determined by their motion and the geometry of nearby boundaries. Fish and underwater robots can use these…

cs.RO2015★ 3 cited

Energy Dissipation by Metamorphic Micro-Robots in Viscous Fluids

Tad Hogg

Microscopic robots could perform tasks with high spatial precision, such as acting on precisely-targeted cells in biological tissues. Some tasks may benefit from robots that change…

cs.RO2013★ 7 cited

Using Surface-Motions for Locomotion of Microscopic Robots in Viscous Fluids

Tad Hogg

Microscopic robots could perform tasks with high spatial precision, such as acting in biological tissues on the scale of individual cells, provided they can reach precise locations…

cs.RO2012★ 62 cited

Acoustic Communication for Medical Nanorobots

Tad Hogg, Robert A. Freitas

Communication among microscopic robots (nanorobots) can coordinate their activities for biomedical tasks. The feasibility of in vivo ultrasonic communication is evaluated for micro…