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This talk presents an overview of recent activities of FEMTO-ST institute in the field of micro-nanomanipulation fo both micro nano assembly and biomedical applications. Microrobotic systems are currently limited by the number of degree of freedom addressed and also are very limited by their throughput. Two ways can be considered to improve both the velocity and the degrees of freedom: non-contact manipulation and dexterous micromanipulation. Indeed in both ways movement including rotation and translation are done locally and are only limited by the micro-nano-objects inertia which is very low. It consequently enable to generate 6DOF and to induce high dynamics. The talk presents recent works which have shown that controlled trajectories in non contact manipulation enable to manipulate micro-objects in high speed. Dexterous manipulation on a 4 fingers microtweezers have been also experimented and show that in-hand micromanipulations are possible in micro-nanoscale based on original finger trajectory planning. These two approaches have been applied to perform micro-nano-assemby and biomedical operations
Aude Bolopion is a CNRS researcher (permanent position) at the FEMTO-ST Institute, Besancon, France. She received her Ph.D. degree in robotics in 2010 from the University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, where she was a member of the ISIR micromanipulation team. In this lab, she conducted research works on teleoperation and haptic feedback at the nanoscale. She joined the FEMTO-ST Institute as a CNRS researcher in 2011, in the Biomedical Micro Nano Robotics team. She is now working on the control of microrobotic systems actuated by remotely induced force fields. She has been studying various physical effects such a magnetophoresis, dielectrophoresis or thermocapillary effects.
Michaël Gauthier (IEEE Member), CNRS senior scientist (eq. full professor), is the vice-head of FEMTO-ST institute, Besançon, France. He works in the field of micro-nanorobotics since 2000 and has proposed, modeled and experimented new robotics tools for microhandling and micro-assembly in several European and National projects. He is the author of 2 books, more than 39 papers and 55 conference talks. He is the co-founder of the start-up ‘Percipio Robotics’ providing micro-assembly platforms for industrial applications since 2011. He is currently focusing their works on micro-nano-robots based on non-contact forces and dexterous microgrippers
Dr. Aude Bolopion and Dr. Mich ( FEMTO-ST Institute, Besancon)
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