3D assembly of cellular structures with coordinated manipulation by rail-guided multi-microrobotic system

Huaping Wang*, Tao Yue, Masahiro Nakajima, Masaru Takeuchi, Pei Di, Tao Sun, Qiang Huang, Toshio Fukuda

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Abstract

3D assembly of cellular structures is important for the fabrication of biological substitute in tissue engineering. In this paper, a novel rail-guided multi-microrobotic system was proposed for the assembly of cellular structure. The cellular 2-dimensional (2D) module was fabricated by UV illumination of the crosslinkable hydrogel. The coordinated manipulation among the micromanipulators was performed with newly designed concentric movement along the rail, which realized the arbitrary change of micromanipulator posture. Through the rotation of the end-effectors around the specimen without swapping out the visual field, the manipulation flexibility was improved. The distance information between the micromanipulator and the module was acquired from vision feedback system and utilized for the automatic pick-up of the microstructure. Through the cooperation among multi-manipulators with hybrid motors, the micromanipulation to assemble the 3D structure with 30 nm operation resolution was achieved. Finally, the rail-guided DeSCom system realized the bottom-up fabrication of cellular vascular-like microtube with vision feedback.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2813-2818
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479936854, 9781479936854
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Sept 2014
Event2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2014 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 31 May 20147 Jun 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
ISSN (Print)1050-4729

Conference

Conference2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period31/05/147/06/14

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