State-of-the-art biomedical applications such as targeted drug delivery and laparoscopic
surgery are extremely challenging because of the small length scales, the requirements of …

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 …

Taking inspiration from the crawling motion of biological cells on a substrate, we consider a
physical model of self-propulsion where the spatio-temporal driving can involve both, a …

The controllability of a fully three-dimensional N-link swimmer is studied. After deriving the
equations of motion in a low Reynolds number fluid by means of Resistive Force Theory, the …

Small-scale robots have the potential to impact many areas of medicine and manufacturing
including targeted drug delivery, telemetry and micromanipulation. This paper develops an …

Microrobots have the potential to impact many areas of medicine such as microsurgery,
targeted drug delivery and minimally invasive sensing. Just like microorganisms themselves …

We investigate the controllability of some kinds of driftless affine systems where hysteresis
effects are taken into account, both in the realization of the control and in the state evolution …

One of the few possible mechanisms for self-propulsion at low Reynolds number
(henceforth, Re) is undulations of an elastic tail, as proposed in the classical work of Purcell …