{"title":"Investigation method of individual properties of microorganisms on a chip","authors":"F. Arai, H. Maruyama, T. Fukuda, T. Katsuragi","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2003.1249917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2003.1249917","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports the fixation method of a single cell for the investigation of its properties. We proposed new techniques using laser manipulation and covalent bonding or photo-crosslinkable resin for single cell fixation at desired position precisely. Using our method, we succeeded in the fixation of a single yeast cell and real-time monitoring of its culture on a chip.","PeriodicalId":358698,"journal":{"name":"MHS2003. Proceedings of 2003 International Symposium on Micromechatronics and Human Science (IEEE Cat. No.03TH8717)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116039442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"For a better maneuverability of the electrically powered wheelchair - a pilot-model based approach","authors":"F. Fujii, K. Wada","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2003.1249921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2003.1249921","url":null,"abstract":"This paper concerns the manual control of the electrically powered wheelchair (EPW) and aims to give some justification to the approaches taken in our previous works on improving maneuverability of the EPW. EPW manipulation of the human operator has been considered along with the pilot model framework and an error criterion has been proposed which describes the pilot's activity to maintain the EPW under his/her preferred control. The presented model has been constructed to coincide both with the already known pilot model results and the empirical knowledge on the strategy of the EPW manipulation of the human pilot. We presume that the poor maneuverability of the EPW implies the difficulty in maintaining this error variable to zero, and the fact would serve as a basis of the automatic controller design for EPWs. A fundamental experiment has been carried out to examine the validity of the error model partly and its result has been reported.","PeriodicalId":358698,"journal":{"name":"MHS2003. Proceedings of 2003 International Symposium on Micromechatronics and Human Science (IEEE Cat. No.03TH8717)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128875537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Ishikawa, H. Eda, Y. Yamamoto, K. Kawakami, L. Zhou, J. Shimizu
{"title":"Manipulation of the universal rotational mechanism for biological application","authors":"T. Ishikawa, H. Eda, Y. Yamamoto, K. Kawakami, L. Zhou, J. Shimizu","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2003.1249935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2003.1249935","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, in the potential application of biological and micro-nano technology, there are increasing demands in areas such as bio-cell manipulation and micro fabrication at the micron or nano scale. However, it is very difficult to carry out direct micro manipulations. In contrast to microscopic working procedures, which permit free manipulation of objects with the both hands, microscopic working procedures that permit free manipulation of objects with the both hands, microscopic working procedures involve the observation and manipulation of the object within a very small area under a scanning electron microscope. We are currently developing a manipulation system of biological tissue and cell engineering. For such applications, we need to ascertain the presence of various fungi, bacilli, etc. on an object and approach any point of the object from any direction. To achieve the desired operation, we have developed a proto-type of a two-arm micromanipulator mounted on a rotary table around any given point on an object, allowing biological objects to be approached from any direction. The manipulation system is further comprised of a twin-arm manipulator mounted on a rotary table and a specimen stage. Each arm comes with three actuators superimposed one on the top of the other in order to move along the XYZ axial direction. The manipulator is driven by PZT actuators with magnifier elements and able to cover an envelop as wide as 200 /spl mu/m for each axis of X, Y and Z. The rotary table is supported by a pair of rollers set perpendicularly and driven by DC motor. The attitude of the roller pair is adjustable within three-degrees by the PZT actuators together with parallel plate magnifiers. In this paper, we investigate the need for a mechanism that permits controlled rotation around the principles of motion of our micromanipulation system, and the results of basic experiments with the system.","PeriodicalId":358698,"journal":{"name":"MHS2003. Proceedings of 2003 International Symposium on Micromechatronics and Human Science (IEEE Cat. No.03TH8717)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127624326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polymer synthesizer based on magnetic transport of particles","authors":"M. Ikeuchi, M. Washizu","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2003.1249918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2003.1249918","url":null,"abstract":"A novel polymer synthesizer was developed that permits simple and flexible synthesis of various polymers - such as oligonucleotides or polypeptides. The synthesizer consists of reservoirs, guideways and deflectors, integrated on a single chip. A magnetic particle modified with linker molecule is transported along the guideway by moving magnetic field, and undergoes a series of reservoirs containing the monomers to be added until the desired sequence is obtained on it. Various sequences can be easily with obtained by selecting the appropriate reservoirs with deflectors. By placing thus obtained particles on a substrate, we can fabricate an array of polymers with desired set of sequences. Here, we have made and demonstrated one unit of the synthesizer for DNA synthesis, and confirmed DNA synthesis on particles. With the development of this device, cost-effective fabrication of arrays of various biopolymers in small scale can be realized.","PeriodicalId":358698,"journal":{"name":"MHS2003. Proceedings of 2003 International Symposium on Micromechatronics and Human Science (IEEE Cat. No.03TH8717)","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122971878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Face recognition using improved principal component analysis","authors":"Y. Nara, Jianming Yang, Y. Suematsu","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2003.1249913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2003.1249913","url":null,"abstract":"At the general recognition process, the feature vectors that are obtained from some facial images are transformed into recognition space by Fisher's linear discriminate method (Fisher's method) and principal component analysis (PCA). But at Fisher's method we must recalculate all recognition space when adding a registrant or registrant's learning patterns. In contrast, though at PCA we only recalculate added registrant's pace when adding, the face recognition rate obtained from the conventional PCA is bad, because the aim of the conventional PCA is dimension curtailment for compression of data and isn't dimension curtailment for recognition. Therefore we proposed improved principal component analysis (IPCA) for pattern recognition.","PeriodicalId":358698,"journal":{"name":"MHS2003. Proceedings of 2003 International Symposium on Micromechatronics and Human Science (IEEE Cat. No.03TH8717)","volume":"201 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115889837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design and fabrication of a resonant micro reciprocating engine for power generation","authors":"K. Hashimoto, J. Ogawa, T. Toriyama, S. Sugiyama","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2003.1249951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2003.1249951","url":null,"abstract":"Structure and performance of a silicon based micro reciprocating engine have been designed. The Otto cycle with hydrogen fuel has been adopted for the working cycle. The micro reciprocating engine is composed of opposite-pistons supported by an elastic spring. Resonant mode of the elastic spring is excited due to combustion pressure to increase the generated electric power. Theoretical electric power was found to be /spl sim/40 mW under the conditions that the compression ratio is 5, the maximum combustion temperature is 850K and the first resonant frequency of the elastic spring is 610 Hz. The micro engine can be used as a portable micro power generator with high energy density.","PeriodicalId":358698,"journal":{"name":"MHS2003. Proceedings of 2003 International Symposium on Micromechatronics and Human Science (IEEE Cat. No.03TH8717)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126514388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Wada, A. Komori, Y. Fukaya, T. Oguri, Y. Suzuki, K. Suzuki, M. Kato, M. Momiyama, K. Tatsuno
{"title":"A conceptual proposal of an open architecture for a robot controller","authors":"T. Wada, A. Komori, Y. Fukaya, T. Oguri, Y. Suzuki, K. Suzuki, M. Kato, M. Momiyama, K. Tatsuno","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2003.1249963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2003.1249963","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an example of an open architecture for a robot controller. This architecture is a multi-agent system with blackboard files. The key interfaces between the agents are the task knowledge database and motion table, which are described by character code.","PeriodicalId":358698,"journal":{"name":"MHS2003. Proceedings of 2003 International Symposium on Micromechatronics and Human Science (IEEE Cat. No.03TH8717)","volume":"35 7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125724964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monolithic piezoelectric push-pull actuators for inertial drives","authors":"A. Bergander, W. Driesen, T. Varidel, J. Breguet","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2003.1249960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2003.1249960","url":null,"abstract":"In many miniature systems for positioning and especially in microrobotics the assembly of the components becomes difficult. At sizes of systems of a few cm/sup 2/ not only the assembly becomes more difficult, downscaling also means that single parts become more fragile and individually more difficult to fabricate. We propose a method which allows to integrate several piezoelectric actuators of one or two degrees of freedom within the same bulk material, permitting to fabricate tiny positioning systems and microrobots at a mesoscopic scale. The principle of the actuator is presented, followed by some remarks on dimensioning and fabrication. Finally, some application examples are given.","PeriodicalId":358698,"journal":{"name":"MHS2003. Proceedings of 2003 International Symposium on Micromechatronics and Human Science (IEEE Cat. No.03TH8717)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114102070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Arai, Pou Liu, Lixin Dong, M. Nakajima, T. Fukuda
{"title":"Tungsten-rich deposits at anode using carbon nanotube emitters","authors":"F. Arai, Pou Liu, Lixin Dong, M. Nakajima, T. Fukuda","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2003.1249933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2003.1249933","url":null,"abstract":"Electron-beam-induced deposition (EBID) with two kinds of organometallic compounds including tungsten hexacarbonyl (W(CO)/sub 6/) and dimethyl-gold ((CH/sub 3/)/sub 2/(C/sub 5/H/sub 7/O/sub 2/)Au) as precursors is presented so as to obtain conductive nanostructures. Their resistivity and growth rate are measured, and the compositions of deposits are analyzed. To improve the resolution of the deposit and to reduce energy consumption, EBID with multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) as emitters is demonstrated. Factors influencing field emission characteristics of MWNT emitters are analyzed. In the deposit at anode by using W(CO)/sub 6/, mass of the tungsten reaches up to about 80% among the compositions.","PeriodicalId":358698,"journal":{"name":"MHS2003. Proceedings of 2003 International Symposium on Micromechatronics and Human Science (IEEE Cat. No.03TH8717)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116005209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collaborative localization of multi micro-robots based on Markov algorithm","authors":"Dai Yi, Y. Guozheng","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2003.1249966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2003.1249966","url":null,"abstract":"Robot localization is one of the most fundamental problems in robotic research, especially in multi-robots system. At present, most multi MICRO robots systems only utilize external vision camera to provide location information and adopt method based on chromatic image segmentation techniques to localize each robot. This method has high requirement on system hardware while is less robust to run in practical simulation. This paper introduces a localization method of multi micro-robots based on Markov algorithm, which not only uses image captured by external camera but also motion model of each robot to perform localization task. It requires less system resources while gives more robust results. This approach is also scalable and efficient to deal with a system that has a larger number of micro robots.","PeriodicalId":358698,"journal":{"name":"MHS2003. Proceedings of 2003 International Symposium on Micromechatronics and Human Science (IEEE Cat. No.03TH8717)","volume":"634 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122949768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}