NRI: Small: Magnetic Mobile Micro-Robotic Swarms using Smart Magnetic Composites

NRI：小型：使用智能磁性复合材料的磁性移动微型机器人群

• 批准号: 1317477
• 负责人: Metin Sitti
• 金额: $ 80万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-15 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1317477&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NRI; Small; Magnetic; Mobile; Micro

The research objective of this award is to develop methods for modeling, design and control of a large number of magnetic mobile micro-robots for a given specific application. Here, micro-robots are proposed to be made of novel smart magnetic composites for remote, parallel magnetic actuation and control in two dimensions and three dimensions in small confined spaces such as inside the human body, a micro-fluidic chip, and small desktop workspaces. The research will result in methods which are general enough to apply across all magnetic micro-robotic systems and that can be exploited in diverse applications. Deliverables include a catalog of fundamental modeling, analysis, design and fabrication tools, demonstration and validation via hardware, documentation of research results, and engineering student education.If successful, the results of this research will provide an opportunity to create new micro-robotic systems for use in health-care, microfluidic bio-devices, tissue engineering, programmable matter, and desktop micro-manufacturing applications. The results will be disseminated to allow the creation of commercial micro-robotic devices for medical, bioengineering and micro-manufacturing applications. Graduate and undergraduate engineering students will benefit through classroom instruction and involvement in the research. The research results of the project will be presented to children, K-12 students, K-12 teachers, IEEE student members, and college students through public lectures. The achievements of the project will be also exhibited in science museums for educating the public and children on micro-robotics.

该奖项的研究目标是开发用于为给定特定应用的大量磁性移动微型机器人建模，设计和控制的方法。在这里，建议微型机器人由新型的智能磁性复合材料制成，用于偏远，平行的磁性致动和控制二维和控制小小的密闭空间，例如人体内部，微流体芯片和小型桌面工作空间。这项研究将导致足够通用的方法在所有磁性微生物系统中应用，并且可以在不同的应用中利用。可交付成果包括基本建模，分析，设计和制造工具的目录，通过硬件，研究结果记录和工程学生教育的演示和验证。用于医疗保健，微流体生物设备，组织工程，可编程物质和桌面微型制造应用。结果将被传播，以允许创建用于医疗，生物工程和微型制造应用的商业微生物设备。研究生和本科工程专业的学生将通过课堂教学和参与研究而受益。该项目的研究结果将通过公开讲座提交给儿童，K-12学生，K-12老师，IEEE学生成员和大学生。该项目的成就还将在科学博物馆中展出，以教育公众和儿童有关微生物学的知识。