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ArticleMicromachines2021

Magnetic Driven Two-Finger Micro-Hand with Soft Magnetic End-Effector for Force-Controlled Stable Manipulation in Microscale.

Dan Liu, Xiaoming Liu, Pengyun Li, Xiaoqing Tang, Masaru Kojima, Qiang Huang, Tatsuo Arai

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Article in Micromachines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Dan LiuBeijing Institute of Technology, School of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing 100081, China.
Xiaoming LiuBeijing Institute of Technology, School of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0230-2742
Pengyun LiBeijing Institute of Technology, School of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing 100081, China.
Xiaoqing TangBeijing Institute of Technology, School of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing 100081, China.
Masaru KojimaDepartment of Materials Engineering Science, Osaka University, Osaka 560-8531, Japan.
Qiang HuangBeijing Institute of Technology, School of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing 100081, China.
Tatsuo AraiBeijing Institute of Technology, School of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing 100081, China.
Beijing Institute of Technology · CNThe University of Osaka · JP

Funding

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation BX20190035, 2020M680015The Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 19H02093The National Natural Science Foundation of China 61873037, 61903039
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, micromanipulators have provided the ability to interact with micro-objects in industrial and biomedical fields. However, traditional manipulators still encounter challenges in gaining the force feedback at the micro-scale. In this paper, we present a micronewton force-controlled two-finger microhand with a soft magnetic end-effector for stable grasping. In this system, a homemade electromagnet was used as the driving device to execute micro-objects manipulation. There were two soft end-effectors with diameters of 300 μm. One was a fixed end-effector that was only made of hydrogel, and the other one was a magnetic end-effector that contained a uniform mixture of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and paramagnetic particles. The magnetic force on the soft magnetic end-effector was calibrated using an atomic force microscopy (AFM) probe. The performance tests demonstrated that the magnetically driven soft microhand had a grasping range of 0-260 μm, which allowed a clamping force with a resolution of 0.48 μN. The stable grasping capability of the magnetically driven soft microhand was validated by grasping different sized microbeads, transport under different velocities, and assembly of microbeads. The proposed system enables force-controlled manipulation, and we believe it has great potential in biological and industrial micromanipulation.

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force-controlledmagnetically drivenmicromanipulationmicronewtonstable grasping

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PMID33917157
PMCPMC8067839
OpenAlexW3143893296

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