Micro - Nano Robotics and Mechatronics for Biomedical Applications

Alireza Delisnav¹

1) ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY Centeral Tehran Branch Faculty of Engineering – Dempartment of Mechanics On Mechatronics Engineering

IOI Code : XBKC-ECKAZ
Publication : International Conference on Engineering & Technology - Norway (icetconf.com)
Abstract :
    In medical field, one recent trend in clinical operation is minimally invasive surgery which is used an endoscope and small instruments to avoid a damage for patients [1, 2]. This surgical technique has been well introduced to many diagnosis and treatment department such as internal medicine, ophthalmology, urology, especially surgical department. As well known, surgical robots have been introduced and operated in this field to support surgical operations [3, 4]. Generally, effect of minimally invasive surgery for patient is defined as follows: Therefore, in order to reduce invasiveness such as scars, it is important to miniaturize the endoscope and surgical tools, while maintaining the performance of devices. In addition, doctors would like to add some functions for improvement of safety and usability of surgical tools during treatments. Therefore, small and thin instrument with high‐function are highly required and micro mechatronics makes a substantial contribution to fabricate and integrate such novel tools and systems. On the other hand, target of scientists in bioscience filed has been changed from tissue to single cell level for specific investigation and understand of biological function. Especially, since investigation of mechanical characteristics of cells is really important to know functions and growth factors of cell, micro‐nano actuators are highly required to stimulate and measure for an investigation of single cell [5, 6]. Since conventional commercial manipulators are quite large and slow, it is desired to develop high‐performance tools which include micro‐nanorobots capable of manipulation and sensing of cells with a high‐speed and a high‐throughput. By applying micro fabrication technique such as MEMS technology, we can make and integrate tiny mechanical parts as a robot about similar size as cells with diameter of 10‐100 μm. Therefore, for bio application, micro‐nano fabrication and robotics are also important in order to realize the novel robots and systems. In this chapter, we introduce how to design/fabricate the micro‐ device and robot using for actual medical and bioscience applications. Current problem and future direction of micronano mechatronics for biomedical applications are also discussed to encourage vigorous research activity in this field.

Keywords : nano mechateronics robot micro nano medical ophthalmology urology mems technology