Description
Microbiorobotics is a new engineering discipline that inherently involves a multidisciplinary approach (mechanical engineering, cellular biology, mathematical modeling, control systems, synthetic biology, etc). Building robotics system in the micro scale is an engineering task that has resulted in many important applications, ranging from micromanufacturing techniques to cellular manipulation. However, it is also a very challenging engineering task. One of the reasons is because many engineering ideas and principles that are used in larger scales do not scale well to the micro-scale. For example, locomotion principles in a fluid do not function in the same way, and the use of rotational motors is impractical because of the difficulty of building of the required components.- Microrobotics is an area that is acknowledged to have massive potential in applications from medicine to manufacturing. This book introduces an inter-disciplinary readership to the toolkit that micro-organisms offer to micro-engineering- The design of robots, sensors and actuators faces a range of techology challenges at the micro-scale. This book shows how biological techniques and materials can be used to meet these challenges- World-class multi-disciplanry editors and contributors leverage insights from engineering, mathematical modeling and the life sciences – creating a novel toolkit for microrobotics
Table of Contents
IntroductionB: Fundamentals of Cellular MechanicsB.1: Fluid-structure Interactions and Flagellar ActuationB.2: Mathematical Models for Swimming BacteriaB.3: Tetrahymena pyriformis in MotionC: Theoretical MicrobioroboticsC.1: Piezoelectric Cellular Actuators with Nested Rhombus Strain AmplificationC.2: Stochastic Models and Control of Bacterial Bioactuators and BiomicrorobotsC.3: Stochastic Model and Control in MicrobioroboticsD: Experimental MicrobioroboticsD.1: Bacteria-Inspired MicrorobotsD.2: Magnetotactic Bacteria for MicroroboticsD.3: Flexible magnetic microswimmersD.4: Bacteria-Powered MicrorobotsD.5: Control of Tetrahymena pyriformis as a MicrorobotE: Perspectives and Outlook
