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- The work presents an automated opto-fluidic system that enables the fast, non-contact manipulation of tiny microcomponents using laser-driven thermocapillary flows.
- High-speed flows facilitate the simultaneous movement of multiple micro-objects with just one laser and a mirror scanner, allowing for efficient parallel manipulation.
- The system was successfully tested by manipulating two glass beads, each between 30 to 300 μm in diameter, moving in parallel at speeds of several millimeters per second using visual servoing and a high-speed camera.
Article Abstract
This work describes an automated opto-fluidic system for parallel non-contact manipulation of microcomponents. The strong dynamics of laser-driven thermocapillary flows were used to drag microcomponents at high speeds. High-speed flows allowed to manipulate micro-objects in a parallel manner only using a single laser and a mirror scanner. An automated process was implemented using visual servoing with a high-speed camera in order to achieve accurately parallel manipulation. Automated manipulation of two glass beads of 30 up to 300 μm in diameter moving in parallel at speeds in the range of mm/s was demonstrated.
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