Magnetically Actuated Artificial Cilia for a Biomedical Swimming Microrobot

摘要

Swimming microrobots can play a key role in biomedical applications for in vivo drug delivery, monitoring early symptoms of diseases and minimally invasive surgery. Magnetic actuation is the most powerful way of wireless actuation. In this paper, magnetically actuated artificial cilia are used for propulsion of a swimming microrobot. Modelling magnetic actuation force and cilia hydrodynamic, the microrobot dynamic is solved to find performance parameters of the microrobot. The magnetically actuated structures show a high level of functionality as artificial cilia for propulsion of a medical microrobot.