Microbiorobotics

Microbiorobotics: Biologically Inspired Microscale Robotic Systems, Second Edition presents information on a new engineering discipline that takes a multidisciplinary approach to accomplish precise manipulation of microscale spaces.

Microorganisms have evolved various mechanisms to thrive in microscale environments and are therefore a useful tool for use in many applications, ranging from micromanufacturing techniques, to cellular manipulation. In the context of microrobotics, biological microrobots can directly harness the microorganisms for propulsive and sensing power and synthetic microrobots can mimic the microorganisms' motions for effective locomotion.

This second edition covers new advances and insights that have emerged in recent years. Several new chapters have been added on important new research areas, with existing chapters thoroughly revised. In particular, increased coverage is given to fluid dynamics of microswimmers in nature.

Autorentext
Dr MinJun Kim is presently an associate professor at Drexel University with a joint appointment in both the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics and the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health System.. For the past several years, Dr. Kim has been exploring biological transport phenomena including cellular/molecular mechanics and engineering in novel nano/microscale architectures to produce new types of nanobiotechology, such as nanopore technology and nano/micro robotics. His notable awards include the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2008), Drexel Career Development Award (2008), Human Frontier Science Program Young Investigator Award (2009), Army Research Office Young Investigator Award (2010), Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2011), KOFST Brain Pool Fellowship (2013), Bionic Engineering Outstanding Contribution Award (2013), Louis & Bessie Stein Fellowship (2014), ISBE Fellow (2014), and ASME Fellow (2014). Dr. Anak Agung Julius is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is also a faculty member of the Rensselaer Center for Automation Technologies and Systems. His research interests lie in the intersection of systems and control theory, systems biology, and theoretical computer scienceU Kei Cheang works with under Min Jun Kim researching flagella integrated microbiorobots

Inhalt
Part 1: Introduction

Part 2: Theoretical Microbiorobotics
1. Controlling swarms of robots with global inputs: Breaking symmetry

2. Optimization of magnetic forces for drug delivery in the inner ear

   Part 3: Biological Microrobots
   3. Development of active controllable tumor targeting bacteriobot

3. Control of magnetotactic bacteria
4. Obstacle avoidance for bacteria-powered microrobots

5. Interacting with boundaries

   Part 4: Synthetic Microrobots
   7. Control of three bead achiral robotic microswimmers

6. Micro- and nanorobots in Newtonian and biological viscoelastic fluids
7. Magnetic microrobots for microbiology
8. Magnetic mobile microrobots for mechanobiology and automated biomanipulation
9. Magnetic swarm control of microorganisms