a hardware test bed for micro-scale multi-agent control
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A Hardware Test Bed for Micro-Scale Multi-Agent Control. Tunaidi Ansari Bioengineering, UIUC UROP 2007 Professor Timothy Bretl Aerospace Engineering, UIUC. Original Motivator. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
A Hardware Test Bed for Micro-Scale Multi-Agent
Control
Tunaidi AnsariBioengineering, UIUC
UROP 2007
Professor Timothy BretlAerospace Engineering, UIUC
Original Motivator
Images taken from article: Organized Motion Control of a lot of Mircroorganisms Using Visual Feedback, by K. Takahashi, N. Ogawa, H. Oku, and K. Hashimoto.
Selecting the Test Sample
Galvanotaxis: electric field as stimulus. ie. Paramecium caudatum
Phototaxis: light as stimulus.ie. Euglena gracilis
Magnetotaxis: magnetic field as stimulus.ie. Magnetospirillum magnetotacticum
Chemotaxis: chemicals as stimulus.ie. Escherichia coli
Ferrofluid
Fabricating the Test Sample
The Optics
The Stage
Image Results
Motion Results
Future Work
• Repeatability
• Micro-manipulation
• Actuation system
• Other test samples