Propulsion of a Swimming Micro Medical Robot

Medical doctors use radiology, endoscopy and smart pills to inspect the human body's inner content. Nowadays, self-propelled micro robots are developed to fulfill these tasks which use types of crawling techniques to advance. This paper suggests a novel swimming method, which creates a travelin...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inProceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation pp. 1327 - 1331
Main Authors Kosa, G., Shoham, M., Zaaroor, M.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2005
Subjects
Endoscopes
Fluid Flow Analysis
Humans
Manufacturing
Medical Robot
Medical robotics
Micro Robot
Micromechanical devices
Optimization methods
Piezoelectric actuators
Propulsion
Radiology
Swimming Robot
Tail
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:Medical doctors use radiology, endoscopy and smart pills to inspect the human body's inner content. Nowadays, self-propelled micro robots are developed to fulfill these tasks which use types of crawling techniques to advance. This paper suggests a novel swimming method, which creates a traveling wave in an elastic tail made of piezo-electric actuators, for propulsion of a micro-robot in the body. The novel swimming method was analyzed and optimized analytically by solving the coupled elastic/fluidic problem. It was found that under the extreme size limitations a tail manufactured by current MEMS technology is able to swim at the order of several mm/sec in water.
ISBN:078038914X
9780780389144
ISSN:1050-4729
2577-087X
DOI:10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570299