Design and Modelling of a Micro Swimming Robot

Yuan, Fei; Hasan, Mohammad S.; Yu, Hongnian

Abstract

Swimming micro-robots i.e., micro-swimmers have many applications in various areas e.g., investigation, repair, rescue etc. for industrial equipment, space exploration, human body etc. Fortunately, the micro-swimmers can be regarded as swimming in low Reynolds number flow which is dominated by Stoke equation. This paper reviews existing models and proposes a micro-swimmer model based on double-helix flagella and a body. It also investigates model parameter optimisation using simulation results. These designs use a suitable model method and are discussed in dimensional details.

Citation

Yuan, F., Hasan, M. S., & Yu, H. (2019, August). Design and Modelling of a Micro Swimming Robot. Presented at 2019 International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems (ICAMechS), Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 2019 International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems (ICAMechS)
• Start Date: Aug 26, 2019
• End Date: Aug 28, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Oct 10, 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Deposit Date: Jun 22, 2022
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Series ISSN: 2325-0690
• Book Title: 2019 International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems (ICAMechS)
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/icamechs.2019.8861606
• Keywords: Double flagella, low Reynolds number, stoke equation, swimming micro-robot
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2881170