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Design And Development Of Miniature Compliant Grippers For Bio-Micromanipulation And Characterization

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Title Design And Development Of Miniature Compliant Grippers For Bio-Micromanipulation And Characterization
 
Creator Bhargav, Santosh D B
 
Subject Compliant Grippers
Miniature Compliant Grippers
Compliant Mechanisms
Bio-Micromanipulation
Kinetoelastostatic Map
Biological Cells Mechanical Characterization
Compliant Gripper Models
Compliant Grippers Force Sensors
Micro-Manipulation
Mechanical Bio-Markers
Compliant Gripper-based Manipulation
Grippers
Robot Grippers
Automatic Control Engineering
 
Description Miniature compliant grippers are designed and developed to manipulate biological cells and characterize them. Apart from grippers, other compliant mechanisms are also demonstrated to be effective in manipulation and characterization. Although scalability and force-sensing capability are inherent to a compliant mechanism, it is important to design a compliant mechanism for a given application. Two techniques based on Spring-lever models and kinetoelastostatic maps are developed and used for designing compliant devices. The kinetoelastostatic maps-based technique is a novel approach in designing a mechanism of a given topology and shape. It is also demonstrated that these techniques can be used to tune the stiffness of a mechanism for a given application. In situations where any single mechanism is incapable of executing a specific task, two or more mechanisms are combined into a single continuum with enhanced functionality. This has led to designs of composite compliant mechanisms.
Biological cells are manipulated using compliant grippers in order to study their mechanical responses. Biological cells whose size varies from 1 mm (a large zebrafish embryo) to 10 µm (human liver cells), and which require the grippers to resolve forces ranging from 1 mN (zebrafish embryo) to 10 nN (human cells), are manipulated. In addition to biological cells, in some special cases such as tissue-cutting and cement-testing, inanimate specimens are used to highlight specific features of compliant mechanisms. Two extreme cases of manipulation are carried out to demonstrate the efficacy of the design techniques. They are: (i) breaking a stiff cement specimen of stiffness 250 kN/m (ii) gentle grasping of a soft zebrafish embryo of stiffness 10 N/m.
Apart from manipulation, wherever it is viable, the mechanisms are interfaced with a haptic device such that the user’s experience of manipulation is enriched with force feedback.
An auxiliary study on the characterization of cells is carried out using a micro¬pipette based aspiration technique. Using this technique, cells existing in different conditions such as perfusion, therapeutic medicines, etc., are mechanically characterized. This study is to qualitatively compare aspiration-based techniques with compliant gripper-based manipulation techniques.
A compliant gripper-based manipulation technique is beneficial in estimating the bulk stiffness of the cells and can be extended to estimate the distribution of Young’s modulus in the interior. This estimation is carried out by solving an inverse problem. A previously reported scheme to solve over specified boundary conditions of an elastic object—in this case a cell—is improved, and the improved scheme is validated with the help of macro-scale specimens.
 
Contributor Ananthasuresh, G K
 
Date 2017-05-24T15:51:02Z
2017-05-24T15:51:02Z
2017-05-24
2013-07
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2005/2625
http://etd.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/abstracts/3387/G26006-Abs.pdf
 
Language en_US
 
Relation G26006