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Magnetic micromanipulation (Inactive)

Description: This project investigates the use of magnetic fields to steer and control microrobotic agents at the microscale. It covers both open-loop systems, where magnetic effects are used to influence system properties, and closed-loop systems, where real-time feedback enables stable actuation and manipulation. The approach exploits both magnetic torques, generated by uniform magnetic fields to induce rotation, and magnetic forces, produced by field gradients to enable translational motion and levitation. These mechanisms are applied to tasks such as micromanipulation, assembly, and navigation in complex environments.

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Publications

  • Franco N Piñan Basualdo, Corrado Verde, Fanny Ficuciello, Sarthak Misra. "Autonomous Sorting of Beads in a 3D Environment Using Levitating Magnetic Microrobots." Advanced Intelligent Systems (2025). doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202500200.

  • Franco N Piñan Basualdo, Vasileios D Trikalitis, Sabrina Visconti, Fanny Ficuciello, Constantinos Goulas, Jeroen Rouwkema, Sarthak Misra. "Magnetic Nozzle-Free Embedded 3D (MagNoFE3D) Printing." Advanced Materials Technologies 10.5 (2025). doi.org/10.1002/admt.202401097.

  • Franco N Pinan Basualdo, Robert GJ van de Weerd, Sarthak Misra. "Tunable magnetic trap: Using passive elements to control magnetic microrobots." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 9.2 (2024). doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2024.3349810.

  • Yu-Hsiang Lin, Franco N Piñan Basualdo, Venkatasubramanian Kalpathy Venkiteswaran, Sarthak Misra. "Untethered soft magnetic pump for microfluidics-based Marangoni surfer." Scientific Reports 14.1 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-70944-z.

  • Juan J Huaroto, Franco N Piñan Basualdo, Dionne Lisa Roos Ariëns, Sarthak Misra. "Non-uniform magnetic fields for collective behavior of self-assembled magnetic pillars." Swarm Intelligence (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s11721-024-00240-z.

  • Marco Ferro, Franco N Piñan Basualdo, Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Sarthak Misra, Claudio Pacchierotti. "Experimental Evaluation of Haptic Shared Control for Multiple Electromagnetic Untethered Microrobots." IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 22 (2024). doi.org/10.1109/TASE.2024.3477308.

  • Franco N Piñan Basualdo, Sarthak Misra. "Collaborative magnetic agents for 3d microrobotic grasping." Advanced Intelligent Systems 5.12 (2023). doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202300365.

Presentations

  • Yuxin Jin, Franco N Pinan Basualdo, Antonio Marino, Yongfeng Mei, Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Claudio Pacchierotti, Sarthak Misra. "Graph Neural Network-Based Real-Time 3D Tracking for Micro-Agent Control." International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales, Delft, The Netherlands (2024) - Presentation.

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