This book provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the design, fabrication, motion control, and future development of magnetically actuated soft microrobots. It is composed of six chapters that cover the fundamental principles, material strategies, and control technologies underlying the development of this emerging field. The first two chapters introduce the basic concepts, materials, and fabrication methods of magnetic soft microrobots. Chapters 3 to 5 focus on the locomotion mechanisms, motion control strategies, and cooperative control of multiple soft microrobots, presenting both theoretical analyses and experimental insights. The final chapter discusses the future trends in materials innovation, modeling, control algorithms, and biomedical applications. This book serves as a valuable reference for researchers and engineers working in microrobotics and biomedical engineering, as well as an informative guide for graduate students and educators interested in magnetic soft robotic systems.
Introduction of magnetically actuated soft microrobot.- Materials and
fabrication of magnetic soft microrobots.- Locomotion characteristics of
magnetic soft bionic microrobot.- Motion control of magnetic soft
microrobot.- Control of multiple magnetic soft microrobots.- Future
developments.
Tiantian Xu received the M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from the Ecole Centrale Paris, France, the Engineer degree (M.S. degree) in Mechanic from Supmeca, France, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree at the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR), University of Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, France, in 2014. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, in the department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering from 2014 to 2016. She is currently working as a professor in the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Robotics and Intelligent System, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her current research interests focus on the design, control, and biomedical applications of magnetically driven microrobots.
Chenyang Huang received the B.E. degree in measuring and control technology and instrumentation from Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, in 2017, and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in pattern recognition in intelligent systems from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2020 and 2024, respectively. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher with Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
