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MRI-powered Magnetic Miniature Capsule Robot with HIFU-controlled On-demand Drug Delivery
Mehmet Efe Tiryaki, Fatih Dogangun, Cem Balda Dayan +2
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided robotic systems offer great potential for new minimally invasive medical tools, including MRI-powered miniature robots. By re-purposing the…
Designing Covalent Organic Framework-based Light-driven Microswimmers towards Intraocular Theranostic Applications
Varun Sridhar, Erdost Yildiz, Andrés Rodríguez-Camargo +8
Even micromachines with tailored functionalities enable targeted therapeutic applications in biological environments, their controlled motion in biological media and drug delivery…
Design and Development of a Lorentz Force-Based MRI-Driven Neuroendoscope
Martin Francis Phelan, Nihal Olcay Dogan, Jelena Lazovic +1
The introduction of neuroendoscopy, microneurosurgery, neuronavigation, and intraoperative imaging for surgical operations has made significant improvements over other traditionall…
Biocompatible carbon nitride-based light-driven microswimmer propulsion in biological and ionic media with responsive on-demand drug delivery
Varun Sridhar, Filip Podjaski, Yunus Alapan +5
We propose two-dimensional organic poly(heptazine imide) (PHI) carbon nitride microparticles as light-driven microswimmers in various ionic and biological media. Their demonstrated…
Suction-based Soft Robotic Gripping of Rough and Irregular Parts
Sukho Song, Dirk-Michael Drotlef, Donghoon Son +2
Recently, suction-based robotic systems with microscopic features or active suction components have been proposed to grip rough and irregular surfaces. However, sophisticated fabri…
Selectively Controlled Magnetic Microrobots with Opposing Helices
Joshua Giltinan, Panayiota Katsamba, Wendong Wang +2
Magnetic microrobots that swim through liquid media are of interest for minimally invasive medical procedures, bioengineering, and manufacturing. Many of the envisaged applications…
Rotational Flows Generated by Microrobots Rotating Near Surfaces at Low Reynolds Number
Zhou Ye, Anirban Jana, Metin Sitti
In this study, we use numerical simulations to investigate the flow field induced by a single magnetic microrobot rotating with a constant angular speed about an axis perpendicular…
Characterization and Thermal Management of a DC Motor-Driven Resonant Actuator for Miniature Mobile Robots with Oscillating Limbs
David Colmenares, Randall Kania, Miao Liu +1
In this paper, we characterize the performance of and develop thermal management solutions for a DC motor-driven resonant actuator developed for flapping wing micro air vehicles. T…
Bio-inspired Flexible Twisting Wings Increase Lift and Efficiency of a Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle
David Colmenares, Randall Kania, Wang Zhang +1
We investigate the effect of wing twist flexibility on lift and efficiency of a flapping-wing micro air vehicle capable of liftoff. Wings used previously were chosen to be fully ri…
Order and Information in the Patterns of Spinning Magnetic Micro-disks at the Air-water Interface
Wendong Wang, Gaurav Gardi, Paolo Malgaretti +9
The application of the Shannon entropy to study the relationship between information and structures has yielded insights into molecular and material systems. However, the difficult…
Cohesive self-organization of mobile microrobotic swarms
Berk Yigit, Yunus Alapan, Metin Sitti
Mobile microrobots are envisioned to be useful in a wide range of high-impact applications, many of which requiring cohesive group formation to maintain self-bounded swarms in the…
Monolithic shape-programmable dielectric liquid crystal elastomer actuators
Zoey S. Davidson, Hamed Shahsavan, Amirreza Aghakhani +5
Macroscale robotic systems have demonstrated great capabilities of high speed, precise, and agile functions. However, the ability of soft robots to perform complex tasks, especiall…
The near and far of a pair of magnetic capillary disks
Lyndon Koens, Wendong Wang, Metin Sitti +1
Control on microscopic scales depends critically on our ability to manipulate interactions with different physical fields. The creation of micro-machines therefore requires us to u…
Programmable collective behavior in dynamically self-assembled mobile microrobotic swarms
Berk Yigit, Yunus Alapan, Metin Sitti
Collective control of mobile microrobotic swarms is indispensable for their potential high-impact applications in targeted drug delivery, medical diagnostics, parallel micromanipul…
Magnetic-Visual Sensor Fusion-based Dense 3D Reconstruction and Localization for Endoscopic Capsule Robots
Mehmet Turan, Yasin Almalioglu, Evin Pinar Ornek +3
Reliable and real-time 3D reconstruction and localization functionality is a crucial prerequisite for the navigation of actively controlled capsule endoscopic robots as an emerging…
Unsupervised Odometry and Depth Learning for Endoscopic Capsule Robots
Mehmet Turan, Evin Pinar Ornek, Nail Ibrahimli +4
In the last decade, many medical companies and research groups have tried to convert passive capsule endoscopes as an emerging and minimally invasive diagnostic technology into act…
Thermocapillary-driven fluid flow within microchannels
Guillermo J Amador, Ahmet Fatih Tabak, Ziyu Ren +3
Surface tension gradients induce Marangoni flow, which may be exploited for fluid transport. At the micrometer scale, these surface-driven flows can be more significant than those…
Kinetics of 2D-constrained orbitally-shaken particles
Dhananjay Ipparthi, Tijmen A. G. Hageman, Nicolas Cambier +4
We present an experimental study of the kinetics of orbitally-shaken macroscopic particles confined to a two-dimensional bounded domain. Discounting the forcing action of the exter…
EndoSensorFusion: Particle Filtering-Based Multi-sensory Data Fusion with Switching State-Space Model for Endoscopic Capsule Robots
Mehmet Turan, Yasin Almalioglu, Hunter Gilbert +3
A reliable, real time multi-sensor fusion functionality is crucial for localization of actively controlled capsule endoscopy robots, which are an emerging, minimally invasive diagn…
Endo-VMFuseNet: Deep Visual-Magnetic Sensor Fusion Approach for Uncalibrated, Unsynchronized and Asymmetric Endoscopic Capsule Robot Localization Data
Mehmet Turan, Yasin Almalioglu, Hunter Gilbert +3
In the last decade, researchers and medical device companies have made major advances towards transforming passive capsule endoscopes into active medical robots. One of the major c…
Deep EndoVO: A Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network (RCNN) based Visual Odometry Approach for Endoscopic Capsule Robots
Mehmet Turan, Yasin Almalioglu, Helder Araujo +2
Ingestible wireless capsule endoscopy is an emerging minimally invasive diagnostic technology for inspection of the GI tract and diagnosis of a wide range of diseases and pathologi…
Sparse-then-Dense Alignment based 3D Map Reconstruction Method for Endoscopic Capsule Robots
Mehmet Turan, Yusuf Yigit Pilavci, Ipek Ganiyusufoglu +3
Since the development of capsule endoscopcy technology, substantial progress were made in converting passive capsule endoscopes to robotic active capsule endoscopes which can be co…
A fully dense and globally consistent 3D map reconstruction approach for GI tract to enhance therapeutic relevance of the endoscopic capsule robot
Mehmet Turan, Yusuf Yigit Pilavci, Redhwan Jamiruddin +3
In the gastrointestinal (GI) tract endoscopy field, ingestible wireless capsule endoscopy is emerging as a novel, minimally invasive diagnostic technology for inspection of the GI…
A Non-Rigid Map Fusion-Based RGB-Depth SLAM Method for Endoscopic Capsule Robots
Mehmet Turan, Yasin Almalioglu, Helder Araujo +2
In the gastrointestinal (GI) tract endoscopy field, ingestible wireless capsule endoscopy is considered as a minimally invasive novel diagnostic technology to inspect the entire GI…