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Manipulation and Assembly of Particles Using Acoustic Field Gradient and Electromagnetic Needle
Quan Zhou1
Aalto University, School of Electrical Engineering1
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Robotic instruments are miniature robots and mechatronic systems that can manipulate small objects and precisely interact with different surfaces. In this talk, I will discuss our recent work in robotic instruments for manipulation and assembly using two techniques: 1) acoustic manipulation devices that can automatically manipulate/assembly a large amount of particles on a surface using the field gradient generated by a single acoustic transducer, both in ambient air and submerged; 2) robotic electromagnetic needle that can precisely extract and independently manipulate/assemble magnetic microparticles in the presence of neighboring magnetic particles by contact or contactless.
References:
1. Latifi, K., Wijaya, H, and Zhou, Q., “Motion of heavy particles on a submerged Chladni plate”, Physical Review Letters, Volume 122, Issue 18. 5. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.184301, 2019.
2. Seon, J.A., Cenev, Z., and Zhou, Q., “Automatic Non-Contact Extraction and Independent Manipulation of Magnetic Particles Using Electromagnetic Needle”, under review.
3. Cenev, Z., Zhang, H., Sariola, V., Rahikkala, A., Liu, D., Santos, H.A., and Zhou, Q., “Manipulating Superparamagnetic Microparticles with an Electromagnetic Needle”, Advanced Materials Technologies, 3 (1), 1700177, 2018.
4. Zhou, Q., Sariola, V., Latifi, K., Liimatainen, V., “Controlling the motion of multiple objects on a Chladni plate”, Nature Communications, 7, 12764, 2016.