Abstract
In recent years, a large number of studies have focused on micro-robots. Moreover, yearly contests have been held in order to develop micro-robot technologies. As a result of these activities, various types of microrobot have been proposed, including motor-type, piezoelectric-element-type, and electromagnet-type micro-robots. To date, the authors' research group has been studying the locomotion mechanism and a control method for an electromagnet-type microrobot, which has a volume of 1[cm3]. The proposed microrobot has a feature of being able to turn with single electromagnet coil using the difference of the vibration characteristics of the legs. And, we have proposed a wireless remote control method for the microrobot, using the future of the locomotion mechanism and control method. In this paper, we report the results for legs' vibration experiments, which were performed to confirm the effectiveness of the wireless remote control method we have proposed previously, using a fabricated turning microrobot.
