Dual-stylus-arm scratch drive micro-robots controlled by a communication channel

Author

Cho, Jung H. ; Arnold, Mark G.

Author_Institution

Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

May 30 2010-June 2 2010

Firstpage

789

Lastpage

792

Abstract

A novel approach to controlling the mobility of MEMS SDA Scratch-Drive-Actuator (SDA) micro-robots is presented. The operation of MEMS SDA has been well demonstrated by the research of Donald et al.. An improvement of adding an additional stylus arm to control left and right rotation as well as using both arms to halt was presented in. In order to eliminate the complication of different stress curling to control multiple micro-robots, an alternative solution of controlling electrical connection between parallel plate body and stylus arms is presented. A Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) was developed and applied which allowed a micro-robot to move towards a target using global communication channel to guide the robot´s path.

Keywords

data communication equipment; microactuators; microrobots; path planning; MEMS SDA scratch-drive-actuator; communication channel control; micromechanical devices; microrobots; rotation control; stylus arm; universal asynchronous receiver transmitter; Arm; CMOS logic circuits; Communication channels; Communication system control; Electrodes; Micromechanical devices; Optical transmitters; Robots; Stress control; Voltage; MEMS; SDA; micro-robot;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Paris

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5308-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5309-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2010.5537453

Filename

5537453