TY - GEN
T1 - Surface tension driven swarm robots for emerging coordinating motions
AU - Yoshida, Koki
AU - Hayashi, Tomoki
AU - Onoe, Hiroaki
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partly supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (18H03868), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan and The Keio University Doctorate Student Grant-in-Aid Program, Keio University, Japan.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 CBMS-0001.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This paper describes surface tension driven swarm robots for emerging various coordinate motions. Swarm robots that can swim driven by Marangoni effect are self-assembled by surface tension at air-liquid interface and are loosely coupled, ensuring that the swarm robots have the robustness of total swarm system. Even if large external disturbance is applied, the swarm robots separate to protect the total system and continue swimming. Furthermore, the active robot can rescue a stopped robot by self-assembly, and combination task is also exhibited. We believe that our proposed surface tension driven swarm robots will be a powerful approach to the various biochemical application including highly robust swarm robots and models to mimic biological organisms.
AB - This paper describes surface tension driven swarm robots for emerging various coordinate motions. Swarm robots that can swim driven by Marangoni effect are self-assembled by surface tension at air-liquid interface and are loosely coupled, ensuring that the swarm robots have the robustness of total swarm system. Even if large external disturbance is applied, the swarm robots separate to protect the total system and continue swimming. Furthermore, the active robot can rescue a stopped robot by self-assembly, and combination task is also exhibited. We believe that our proposed surface tension driven swarm robots will be a powerful approach to the various biochemical application including highly robust swarm robots and models to mimic biological organisms.
KW - Coordinating motion
KW - Rescue task
KW - Self-assembly
KW - Surface tension
KW - Swarm robots
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85094945594
T3 - 23rd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2019
SP - 1220
EP - 1221
BT - 23rd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2019
PB - Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society
T2 - 23rd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2019
Y2 - 27 October 2019 through 31 October 2019
ER -