Title
Magnetic miniature swimmers with multiple rigid flagella
Date Issued
01 May 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Sorbonne Université
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce novel miniature swimmers with multiple rigid tails based on spherical helices. The tail distribution of these prototypes enhances its swimming features as well as allowing to carry objects with it. The proposed swimmers are actuated by a rotating magnetic field, generating the robot rotation and thus producing a considerable thrust to start self-propelling. These prototypes achieved propulsion speeds up to 6 mm/s at 3.5 Hz for a 6-mm in size prototypes. We study the efficiency of different tail distribution for a 2-tailed swimmer by varying the angular position between both tails. Moreover, it is demonstrated that these swimmers experience great sensibility when changing their tail height. Besides, these swimmers demonstrate to be effective for cargo carrying tasks since they can displace objects up to 3.5 times their weight. Finally, wall effect is studied with multi-tailed swimmer robots considering 2 containers with 20 and 50-mm in width. Results showed speeds' increments up to 59% when swimmers are actuated in the smaller container.
Start page
9237
End page
9243
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Robótica, Control automático
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85092711723
Source
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
ISSN of the container
10504729
ISBN of the container
978-172817395-5
Conference
2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2020
Sponsor(s)
*This work was supported by the French National Research Agency through ANR MultiFlag (grant number ANR-16-CE33-0019). Johan Quispe and Stéphane Régnier are with the Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et Robotique (ISIR), Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France.
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