Atomic Force Microscopy Based Nanorobotics
Modelling, Simulation, Setup Building and Experiments
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It is important to investigate object perception for classification or recognition based on touch sensing, especially when robots are operating in darkness or the objects are difficult to capture by vision sen...
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In this paper, we describe unique thermally responsive polymer system based on nanotube-elastomers dispersed with core-shell expanding microspheres (phase-change material). Upon thermal or infrared stimuli, li...
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Due to the developments in nanotechnology and biotechnology in last two decades, handling nanometer scale entities has become a critical issue. Since the human sensing, precision and size are not sufficient to...
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While the atomic force microscope (AFM) was mainly developed to image the topography of a sample, it has been discovered as a powerful tool also for nanomanipulation applications within the last decade. A vari...
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Teleoperationwith haptic feedback is a promising solution for nanoscale operations, for both educational purposes and high precision manipulation tasks. It is well understood that interactions and forces among...
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This chapter deals with potential applications of atomic force microscopy based robotic system. In a first part, a flexible robotic system developed for multi-scale manipulation and assembly from nanoscale to ...
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Nanorobotics means literally the study of robots that are nanoscale in typical size, i.e. nanorobots,which have yet to be realized. Generally, nanorobots are large robots capable of manipulation nanoscale obje...
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Nanotechnology, which aims at the ideal miniaturization of devices and machines down to atomic and molecular sizes has been a recent hot topic as a promising high technology for the forthcoming century. By pre...
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Fabricating microstructures has been investigated for over a decade. Self-sustained electromechanical systems in these small scales are becoming more and more of a necessity to make further scientific explorat...
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High precision motion control has become an essential requirement in today’s advanced manufacturing systems such as machine tools, micro-manipulators, surface mounting robots, etc. Although various approaches ...