Miniature instrumented robots for mass-scale synthesis and characterization

1st Annual International IEEE-EMBS Special Topic Conference on Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 160-164

  Martel, Sylvain ^a   Roushdy, Omar ^a   Hunter, Ian ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOCHIPS; CHARACTERIZATION; DIAGNOSIS; MICROARRAYS; ROBOTS;

COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; CONVENTIONAL DESIGN; FUTURE CHALLENGES; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MATERIAL SYNTHESIS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOUNDS; SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATIONS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 0001174906     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MMB.2000.893762     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (10)

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5. S, Martel, A. Saraswat, A. Michel, and I. Hunter, "Preliminary évaluation and experimentation of the push-slip method for achieving micrometer and sub-micrometer step sizes with a miniature piezo-actuated three-legged robot operating under high normal forces," Proceeding of SPIE, Microrobotics and Microassembly, Boston, MA, USA, in press.
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8. S. Martel, William Garcia de Quevedo, and I. Hunter, "Techniques for continuous power delivery to a group of I5-Watt +3.3 to ±150 VDC miniature wireless instrumented and fast stepping robots through several thousand intermittent contacts per second between the robots' legs and the walking surface," Proceeding of SPIE, Microrobotics and Microassembly, Boston, MA, USA, in press.
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10. S. Martel, J. Kaufman, C. Helm, T. Fofonoff, J. Bevilacka, R. Dyer, J. Levine, J. Au, and I. Hunter, "NanoRunner: a very small wireless robot with three piezo-actuated legs suited for design experimentations and validations through pre-programmed behaviors," Proceeding of SPIE, Microrobotics and Microassembly, Boston, MA, USA, in press.