The process of swimming at the microscopic scale is successfully described as a finite-
dimensional, nonholonomic control system due to negligible inertia in the low-Reynolds …

The inertialess fluid–structure interactions of active and passive inextensible filaments and
slender-rods are ubiquitous in nature, from the dynamics of semi-flexible polymers and …

This letter focuses on the control theory aspects of the dynamics of a magnetized micro-
swimmer robot model made of three rigid links. Under generic assumptions on the …

With the continuing rapid development of artificial microrobots and active particles,
questions of microswimmer guidance and control are becoming ever more relevant and …

Active walls such as cilia and bacteria carpets generate background flows that can influence
the trajectories of microswimmers moving nearby. Recent advances in artificial magnetic …

In this paper, we propose a flap valve micro-fluidic pump that relies on an electromagnetic
actuation mechanism. We employed a multiphysics-based simulation methodology to prove …

Multimicroagent systems are appealing to perform targeted therapy, biosensing, and
diagnosis. However on most magnetic platforms, the magnetic field is stationary so all the …

The control of multiple magnetic microrobots is of particular interest for therapeutic
applications. Yet the controllability of such a system is not straightforward since, on most of …

In this study, we propose a duckbill valve microfluidic pump that relies on an electromagnetic
actuation mechanism. An FEA/CFD-based approach was adopted for the design of the …

Previous work on controllability of underactuated serial horizontal planar manipulators
mostly focused only on a specific number of links, whereas this paper considers a general N …