Three-legged wireless miniature robots for mass-scale operations at the sub-atomic scale

Author

Martel, Sylvain ; Sherwood, Mark ; Helm, Chad ; De Quevedo, William Garcia ; Fofonoff, Timothy ; Dyer, Robert ; Bevilacqua, John ; Kaufman, Joshua ; Roushdy, Omar ; Hunter, Ian

Author_Institution

Bioinstrumentation Lab., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

3423

Abstract

We propose to bring the instruments to the samples in the form of miniature wireless instrumented robots called the NanoWalkers. With the NanoWalker robot approach, instrumentations and throughput requirements can be adjusted extremely fast by simply adding, replacing, or removing robots at will. It is the aim of this project to develop a powerful and flexible environment that we believe may revolutionize the way drug, biological, material discovery, and characterization will be performed in the future.

Keywords

computerised navigation; legged locomotion; microrobots; position control; telecontrol; NanoWalkers; mass-scale operations; navigation; position control; subatomic scale; three-legged miniature robots; wireless mobile robots; Atomic measurements; Environmental economics; Instruments; Manufacturing; Nanobioscience; Pollution measurement; Production facilities; Robotic assembly; Robots; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 2001. Proceedings 2001 ICRA. IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6576-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2001.933147

Filename

933147