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Dynamic path planning in robot-aided optical manipulation of biological cells

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    Abstract

    This paper presents a path planning approach to the transportation of biological cells with combined robotics and optical tweezers technologies. A rapid path planner based on RRT (Rapidly-exploring random trees) algorithm is applied to find a collision-free path for automatic cell transportation. The optical tweezers are employed to trap and move the cell along the generated path toward a pre-specified goal position. Extending our early reported work on static path planning, a new dynamic path planner that considers the environmental change due to the Brownian movement of the cells is developed. This dynamic path planner can successfully enable the trapped cell to avoid collisions with other cells during transportation in a dynamic environment. Experiments on transporting yeast cells are performed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. © 2012 IEEE.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationIEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
    Pages652-657
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2012
    Event25th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Systems, IROS 2012 - Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal
    Duration: 7 Oct 201212 Oct 2012

    Publication series

    Name
    ISSN (Print)2153-0858
    ISSN (Electronic)2153-0866

    Conference

    Conference25th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Systems, IROS 2012
    PlacePortugal
    CityVilamoura, Algarve
    Period7/10/1212/10/12

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