TY - GEN
T1 - Deformation Simulation of Soft Spiral-Shaped Hydrogel Swimmers for Autonomous Swimming Control
AU - Yoshida, Koki
AU - Onoe, Hiroaki
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partly supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (18H03868) and Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (19J21735), Japan Society for the promotion of science (JSPS), JAPAN.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/1/25
Y1 - 2021/1/25
N2 - Many of these microorganisms can change the morphology of their spiral-shaped flagella to control their motility. By mimicking these flagella system, soft spiral-shaped microswimmers for autonomous swimming controlled have been proposed. By patterning the stimuli-responsive hydrogel, the geometry of the microswimmer changes in response to the external stimuli, and thus the swimming velocity is also changed. However, a more detailed analysis of geometry change is essential for the determination of the suitable design and accurate propulsion control. Therefore, we analyzed the deformation behavior in detail. We revealed that the pattern angle is an important parameter for acceleration/deceleration of the microswimmer.
AB - Many of these microorganisms can change the morphology of their spiral-shaped flagella to control their motility. By mimicking these flagella system, soft spiral-shaped microswimmers for autonomous swimming controlled have been proposed. By patterning the stimuli-responsive hydrogel, the geometry of the microswimmer changes in response to the external stimuli, and thus the swimming velocity is also changed. However, a more detailed analysis of geometry change is essential for the determination of the suitable design and accurate propulsion control. Therefore, we analyzed the deformation behavior in detail. We revealed that the pattern angle is an important parameter for acceleration/deceleration of the microswimmer.
KW - autonomous robot
KW - finite element simulation
KW - geometry change
KW - microswimmer
KW - spiral-shaped hydrogel
KW - swimming control
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U2 - 10.1109/MEMS51782.2021.9375181
DO - 10.1109/MEMS51782.2021.9375181
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85103462358
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
SP - 736
EP - 739
BT - 34th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, MEMS 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 34th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, MEMS 2021
Y2 - 25 January 2021 through 29 January 2021
ER -