Stability of Soft Magnetic Helical Microrobots
Stability of Soft Magnetic Helical Microrobots
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DOI:
10.3390/fluids5010019
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发表时间:
2020-02
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1.9
通讯作者:
Kiarash Samsami;S. Mirbagheri;F. Meshkati;H. Fu
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作者:
Kiarash Samsami;S. Mirbagheri;F. Meshkati;H. Fu
Nano/microrobotic swimmers have many possible biomedical applications such as drug delivery and micro-manipulation. This paper examines one of the most promising classes of these: rigid magnetic microrobots that are propelled through bulk fluid by rotation induced by a rotating magnetic field. Propulsion corresponds to steadily rotating and translating solutions of the dynamics of such microrobots that co-rotate with the magnetic field. To be observed in experiments and be amenable to steering control, such solutions must also be stable to perturbations. In this paper, we analytically derive a criterion for the stability of such steadily rotating solutions for a microrobot made of soft magnetic materials, which have a magnetization that depends on the applied field. This result generalizes previous stability criteria we obtained for microrobots with a permanent magnetization.