Rotating magnetic micro-robots for versatile non-contact fluidic manipulation of micro-objects

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1291-1296

  Diller, Eric ^a   Ye, Zhou ^a   Sitti, Metin ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CAPILLARY; FLUIDIC MANIPULATION; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; MICRO-OBJECTS; MICRO-SCALE OBJECT; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; MICROROBOTS; NEW STRATEGY; NON-CONTACT; VIRTUAL CHANNELS; VISCOUS OIL;

FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROCIRCULATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROBOTICS; ROTATION;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 84455162028     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048611     Document Type: Conference Paper

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