Rotating magnetic miniature swimming robots with multiple flexible flagella

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-13

  Ye, Zhou ^a   Régnier, Stéphane ^b   Sitti, Metin ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Magnetic actuation; Microrobotics; Multiple artificial flagella; Swimming robot

Indexed keywords

MACHINE DESIGN; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; ROBOTS;

CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; GEOMETRY OPTIMIZATION; MAGNETIC ACTUATION; MICRO ROBOTICS; MICROFABRICATION METHODS; MULTIPLE ARTIFICIAL FLAGELLA; SWIMMING ROBOT;

CELLS;

EID: 84894468842     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2013.2280058     Document Type: Article

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