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- Title
Manipulation of Microobjects Based on Dynamic Adhesion Control.
- Authors
Tao Chen; Mingqiang Pan; Yangjun Wang; Jizhu Liu; Liguo Chen; Lining Sun
- Abstract
Due to scale effects, microoperation, especially the releasing of microobjects, has been a long-standing challenge in micromanipulation applications. In this paper a micromanipulation method is presented based on dynamic adhesion control with compound vibration. This adhesion control technique employs inertia force to overcome adhesion force achieving 100% repeatability with releasing accuracy of 4± 0.5μm, which was experimentally quantified through the manipulation of 20- 100μm polystyrene spheres under an optical microscope. The micromanipulation system consists of a microgripper and a piezoelectric ceramics module. The compound vibration comes from the electrostatic actuator and the piezoelectrically driven actuator. Surface and bulk micromachining technology is employed to fabricate the microgripper used in the system from a single crystal silicon wafer. Experimental results confirmed that this adhesion control technique is independent of substrate. Theoretical analyses were conducted to understand the picking up and releasing mechanism. Based on this preliminary study, the micromanipulation system proved to be an effective solution for active picking up and releasing of micromanipulation.
- Subjects
ADHESION; MICROMACHINING; PIEZOELECTRIC ceramics; SILICON wafers; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL systems; SINGLE crystals; MICROFABRICATION
- Publication
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2012, Vol 9, Issue 9, p1
- ISSN
1729-8806
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5772/51507