NanoRobotics Laboratory, Department of Computer and Software Engineering, and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal (EPM), Montréal, QC, Canada.
Biomed Microdevices. 2012 Dec;14(6):1033-45. doi: 10.1007/s10544-012-9696-x.
Microorganisms and specifically motile bacteria have been recently added to the list of micro-actuators typically considered for the implementation of microsystems and microrobots. Such trend has been motivated by the fact these microorganisms are self-powered actuators with overall sizes at the lower end of the micrometer range and which have proven to be extremely effective in low Reynolds number hydrodynamic regime of usually less than 10(-2). Furthermore, the various sensors or taxes in bacteria influencing their movements can also be exploited to perform tasks that were previously considered only for futuristic artificial microrobots. Bacterial implementations and related issues are not only reviewed, but this paper also proposes many techniques and approaches that can be considered as building blocks for the implementations of more sophisticated microsystems and microrobots.
微生物，特别是运动细菌，最近已被添加到通常用于实现微系统和微型机器人的微执行器列表中。这种趋势的动机是这些微生物是自供电执行器，其整体尺寸处于较低的微米范围内，并且已被证明在通常小于 10(-2)的低雷诺数流体动力范围内极其有效。此外，影响其运动的细菌中的各种传感器或税收也可以被利用来执行以前仅考虑用于未来人工微型机器人的任务。本文不仅回顾了细菌的实现和相关问题，还提出了许多技术和方法，可以被视为更复杂的微系统和微型机器人实现的构建块。
