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Micro and nano manipulation techniques can be broadly categorized into four types: contact-based such as micro/nano grippers, AFMs, and SEMs; fluid flow-based; external force field-based such as acoustic, dielectrophoretic, magnetic, and optical; and hybrid such as optoelectronic and thermocapillary. Manipulation may happen in either dry or wet environments, on standard or patterned substrates. Regardless of the operating environment, actuation, and sensing modalities, all the techniques encounter a similar set of modeling, computation, and instrumentation challenges in realizing scalable manipulation. These challenges include the ability to grasp and move a versatile range of regular or irregular-shaped, deformable or rigid, living or engineered objects without causing damages; achieve rapid (several Hz) local actuation rates; reconstruct workspace volumes in real time; deal with stochastic, non-linear, and coupled system dynamics; and ensure extremely fast coordinated planning and control. The workshop presentations will, therefore, focus on the state of the art research in addressing these challenges.
The covered topics will include, but not be limited to:
Acoustic, electrical, magnetic, and optical micro and nano manipulation
Micro and nano fluidic manipulation
Micro and nano grippers
AFM and SEM-based nano manipulation
Hybrid modes of micro and nano manipulation such as optoelectronic and thermocapillary
Design and fabrication of micro and nano patterned substrates
Manipulation of biological objects such as live cells, liposomes, and tissue patches
Heterogeneous micro and nano assemblies, particularly for M(O)EMS and N(O)EMS devices
Dynamics modeling of micro-bio-nano systems
Perception, planning, and control of multiple micro and nano robots
Multi-robot grasping of micro and nano-scale objects
Schedule
8:30 am Opening Remarks
8:50 am Dr. Veronica Iacovacci and Prof. Arianna Menciassi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)
Keynote: Magnetic Solutions for Collective Manipulation in Biomedical Applications [Summary]
9:20 am Prof. David Cappelleri (Purdue University, USA)
Local Magnetic Field Design, Characterization, and Path Planning for Independent Control of Multiple Mobile Microrobots [Summary]
9:40 am Prof. Eric Diller (University of Toronto, Canada)
Magneto-Acoustic Micro-Manipulation for Precision Microfactories [Summary]
10:00 am Morning Coffee Break
10:30 am Prof. Qingze Zou (Rutgers University, USA)
Keynote: Learning-based Trajectory Tracking and Precision Positioning for High-Speed Micro/Nano-Manipulation [Summary]
11:00 am Prof. Sinan Haliyo (Sorbonne University, France)
Haptic Microscopy: Human Interaction for Microrobotics [Summary]
11:20 am Prof. Cédric Clévy (University de Franché-Comté, France)
Automated Robotic Micro-Assembly for Integrated Optics [Summary]
11:40 am Prof. Kenn Oldham (University of Michigan, USA)
Using Dynamics to Extend Micro-Robot Capabilities [Summary]
12:00 pm Mr. Ruoshi Zhang, Dr. Andriy Sherehiy, and Prof. Dan Popa (University of Louisville, USA)
Wafer-scale Microfactories with Assembled MEMS Microrobots for Nanotechnology Applications [Summary]
12:20 pm Lunch Break
1:30 pm Prof. James Mills (University of Toronto, Canada)
Keynote: Micro-Scale Biological Task Automation [Summary]
2:00 pm Prof. Quan Zhou (Aalto University, Finland)
Acoustic Manipulation and Assembly of Many Particles [Summary]
2:20 pm Prof. Agung Julius (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Motion Control of Cellular Robots [Summary]
2:40 pm Prof. Ashis Banerjee (University of Washington, USA)
Concurrent Optical Manipulation of a Large Number of Objects [Summary]
3:00 pm Afternoon Coffee Break
3:30 pm Panel Discussion
4:00 pm Prof. Reza Moheimani (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Keynote: Atomically Precise Manufacturing: Control and Automation on the Atomic Scale [Summary]
4:30 pm Dr. Malte Bartenwerfer and Prof. Sergej Fatikow (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
Challenges of Automation in SEM-based Assembly and Fabrication at the Nanoscale [Summary]
4:50 pm Prof. Bahareh Behkam (Virginia Tech, USA)
Engineering Bacteria-Enabled Autonomous Systems for Parallel Manipulation of Nanoscale Objects [Summary]
5:10 pm Prof. Kaiyan Yu (Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA)
Motion Control, Planning and Manipulation of Nanowires under Electric-Fields in Fluid Suspension with Applications in Nanodevice Fabrication
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5:30 pm Concluding Remarks