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Microrobots were proposed more than 20 years ago but it has proven challenging to integrate a power system and actuators into some few mm3. There have been some attempts to create an autonomous mobile microrobot but any has been successful. Moreover, the proposed microrobots were simply mobile platforms incapable of sensing its environment and taking decisions. I-SWARM has been designed to be a real...
A microrobot is a robot under a few cubic millimeters in size. Miniaturizing its components, power source, sensors and actuators, has proven challenging. As a consequence, few autonomous microrobots have been reported until recently. These are simple mobile platforms, without sensors on board. Their electronics are basically focused on motion. I-SWARM is the first autonomous microrobot, 23mm3 and...
This paper presents a system on chip (SoC) designed specifically to control a mm3-sized microrobot called I-SWARM. The robot is intended to be part of a colony of 1000 members for studying swarm behavior in real time with real robots. The SoC offers a well-suited hardware platform to run multi-agent systems software. The SoC enables control of movement, communications and sensing. It is a platform...
Micro and nanomanipulation are one of the key processes in bioengineering applications. Traditionally, standalone, static, expensive and big devices have been used for this purpose. In this paper, an innovative approach based on the use of a limited cluster of specialized microrobots working cooperatively is proposed and the driving electronics developed are presented. There are three types of specialized...
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