inf308 - Microrobotics II (Complete module description)

Microrobotics and Microsystems Engineering

After having given an established introduction in the module “Microrobotics and Microsystem Technology” this lecture offers a further specialisation in microrobotics. Within the course, all relevant areas (among others the research topics of the division “Microrobotics and Control Engineering (AMiR)”) will be presented and analysed. The student will be provided with an insight into current research projects of AMiR and of other research institutes of microrobotics worldwide; here mainly the requirements of industry to microrobots will be discussed. The lecture will be enhanced by practical courses in the research laboratories of AMiR.
Professional competence
The students:

• name and recognise the basic concepts of nanotechnology, in particular, micro- and nanorobotics approaches
• differentiate the development, control and application of micro- and nanorobotics systems - implement and design application-specific mirco- and nanorobotics systems

Methodological competence
The students:

• transfer their control engineering and image processing abilities on interdisciplinary problems
• transfer their hands-on experience to develop controls and apllications of microrobotic systems on new tasks

Social competence
The students:

• work in a team

Self-competence
The students:

• reflect their problem-solving behaviour and use hands-on experience to develop, control and application of microrobotics

• Smart and versatile microrobots; microactuators (piezo-, ferrofluid- and SMA-actuators) for microrobots;
• real-time image processing in the micro world (SEM, optical microscopy);
• micro force sensors and tactile sensors for microrobots;
• microrobot control systems, e.g. neural networks and fuzzy logic;
• haptic interface for the control of microrobots;
• neural speech interface for the control of microrobots;
• robot-based micro- and nanohandling (SEM, optical microscopy);
• applications: microassembly, nano-testing, cell handling;
• Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs); multi-robot systems: team behavior, communication, control issues

• Lecture notes (can be obtained in secretariate, A1-3-303)
• Fatikow, Sergej (Ed.): Automated Nanohandling by Microrobots, Springer, London, 2008

At the end of the lecture period

Oral Exam and exercises