A micro robot with the ability of fly and adhesion: Development and experiment

Abstract

A newly developed robot with the ability of fly and adhesion is presented. The novel robot owns the ability of fly so that it can transfer for long distance and with the ability of adhesion so that it can be suspended on the coarse surface of tasked objects with all kinds of pose with low energy-consumption. A micro quadrotor and mini adhesion device are employed for the robot. The adhesion device is light-weight and high-efficient so that the developed robot has the advantage of both long distance flying with overcoming obstacles and long time stop with low energy consumption, which are strongly needed by various industries and military authorities in order to perform dangerous operations such as inspection of high-rise buildings and surveillance application. The video demonstrates that the developed robot has the ability to fly, suspend under the eave and the smooth transition between the two actions.

Analytical models and optimization of novel swimming microrobot using ABC computation for biomedical applications

“…During the past few years, the microrobots bring great attentions and scientific demands by several researchers and manufacturers, due to their diverse applications in various fields especially in the field of robotics and alternative biomedicine [1][2][3][4][5]. We can justify that by many virtues used in several domains such as complex surgeries, incurable diseases and military intelligence as well as their applications m. meguellati is with the Department of Electronics, University of Batna, 05000, Algeria (e-mail: m_meguellati@ yahoo.fr).…”

“…in the contaminated or dangerous environment for humankinds [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. With regards to complex surgeries, the researchers invented miniature endoscopic capsule robot capable to discover intestinal conduits, arteries or veins, for helping the surgeons in their diagnosis, based on the entirety of submicron embedded sensors [4][5][6].…”

“…With regards to complex surgeries, the researchers invented miniature endoscopic capsule robot capable to discover intestinal conduits, arteries or veins, for helping the surgeons in their diagnosis, based on the entirety of submicron embedded sensors [4][5][6]. As for military applications, the researchers have developed a microrobot capable to drawn maps of the nuclear area or define large moving targets [7][8][9][10].…”

“…The majority of these microrobots utilized an enormous number of parts, which leads to microrobot performance degradation in terms of fabrication cost and complexity. In other hand, many studies have been reported on microrobot structures, which are depending or not on the biomimetic philosophy [4]. Moreover, speediness and controllability are the most important disadvantages of these investigated microrobots due to their speed limitation and low thrust force.…”

Optimal design of the flying and adhesive robot

“…Previous versions [11] [12] include exploratory prototypes of flying and adhesive robots have been presented, which are promising in many application. However they are designed for special applications.…”