Wireless-powered electroactive soft microgripper

This paper presents a wireless powered single active finger ionic polymer metal composite (IPMC) based microgripper that is operated using external radio-frequency (RF) magnetic field for biological cell manipulation application. A unimorph-like active finger is fabricated by integrating the IPMC ac...

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Main Authors: Cheong, H. R., Teo, C. Y., Leow, P. L., Lai, K. C., Chee, P. S.
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spelling my.utm.797612019-01-28T06:50:24Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/79761/ Wireless-powered electroactive soft microgripper Cheong, H. R. Teo, C. Y. Leow, P. L. Lai, K. C. Chee, P. S. TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering This paper presents a wireless powered single active finger ionic polymer metal composite (IPMC) based microgripper that is operated using external radio-frequency (RF) magnetic field for biological cell manipulation application. A unimorph-like active finger is fabricated by integrating the IPMC actuator to the planar resonant LC receiver and DC rectifier circuits (made of flexible double-sided copper clad polyimide). The finger activated when the device is exposed to the external magnetic field generated by transmitter circuit that matches the resonant frequency of LC receiver circuit, ∼13.6 MHz in magnetic resonant coupling power transfer mechanism. The fabricated prototype shows a maximum IPMC deflection of 0.765 mm (activation force of 0.17 mN) at the RF power of 0.65 W with 3.5 VDC supplied from the LC receiver circuit. Three repeated ON-OFF wireless activation cycle was performed with the reported cumulative deflection of 0.57 mm. The cumulative deflection was increased to 1.17 mm, 1.19 mm and 1.24 mm for three different samples respectively at 5 VDC supplied. As a proof of concept, fish egg was used to represent the biological cell manipulation operation. The microgripper successfully gripped the fish egg sample without any damages. The experiments result validates the effectiveness of wireless RF soft microgripper towards the target application. Institute of Physics Publishing 2018 Article PeerReviewed Cheong, H. R. and Teo, C. Y. and Leow, P. L. and Lai, K. C. and Chee, P. S. (2018) Wireless-powered electroactive soft microgripper. Smart Materials and Structures, 27 (5). ISSN 0964-1726 http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-665X/aab866 DOI:10.1088/1361-665X/aab866
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topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Cheong, H. R.
Teo, C. Y.
Leow, P. L.
Lai, K. C.
Chee, P. S.
Wireless-powered electroactive soft microgripper
description This paper presents a wireless powered single active finger ionic polymer metal composite (IPMC) based microgripper that is operated using external radio-frequency (RF) magnetic field for biological cell manipulation application. A unimorph-like active finger is fabricated by integrating the IPMC actuator to the planar resonant LC receiver and DC rectifier circuits (made of flexible double-sided copper clad polyimide). The finger activated when the device is exposed to the external magnetic field generated by transmitter circuit that matches the resonant frequency of LC receiver circuit, ∼13.6 MHz in magnetic resonant coupling power transfer mechanism. The fabricated prototype shows a maximum IPMC deflection of 0.765 mm (activation force of 0.17 mN) at the RF power of 0.65 W with 3.5 VDC supplied from the LC receiver circuit. Three repeated ON-OFF wireless activation cycle was performed with the reported cumulative deflection of 0.57 mm. The cumulative deflection was increased to 1.17 mm, 1.19 mm and 1.24 mm for three different samples respectively at 5 VDC supplied. As a proof of concept, fish egg was used to represent the biological cell manipulation operation. The microgripper successfully gripped the fish egg sample without any damages. The experiments result validates the effectiveness of wireless RF soft microgripper towards the target application.
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author Cheong, H. R.
Teo, C. Y.
Leow, P. L.
Lai, K. C.
Chee, P. S.
author_facet Cheong, H. R.
Teo, C. Y.
Leow, P. L.
Lai, K. C.
Chee, P. S.
author_sort Cheong, H. R.
title Wireless-powered electroactive soft microgripper
title_short Wireless-powered electroactive soft microgripper
title_full Wireless-powered electroactive soft microgripper
title_fullStr Wireless-powered electroactive soft microgripper
title_full_unstemmed Wireless-powered electroactive soft microgripper
title_sort wireless-powered electroactive soft microgripper
publisher Institute of Physics Publishing
publishDate 2018
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/79761/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-665X/aab866
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