Jean-Marc Breguet

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Solar Cell Powering with Integrated Global Positioning System for mm3 Size Robots

Jean-Marc Breguet, Walter Driesen, Alexis Boletis, Alberto Brunete

new concept of a solar cell powering with integrated Global Positioning System (GPS) for microrobots is proposed. The main idea is to use a projector to transfer energy and to provide global positioning information to the robots that are equipped with mult ...

2006

Ultrasonic monolithic piezoelectric multi DOF actuators for mobile microrobots

Jean-Marc Breguet, Walter Driesen, Tomas Cimprich

We propose a new type of “hybrid” ultrasonic driving principle for our monolithic piezoelectric actuators, which consist of simple electrode patterning on a PZT ceramic substrate The operating principle of the proposed USM is based on the conversion of ell ...

2006

Novel locomotion principle for mobile micro robots

Reymond Clavel, Jean-Marc Breguet, Walter Driesen

This paper presents a novel locomotion concept for mobile micro robots: the “friction drive principle”. It allows for easy miniaturization and high velocities for low power consumption and simple onboard electronics. A prototype (Ø20 mm × 7.5 mm) with two ...

2006

A review on actuation principls for few cubic millimeter sized mobile micro-robots

Jean-Marc Breguet, Walter Driesen

Actuation systems for few cubic millimeter sized mobile autonomous robots are subject to severe constraints in terms of e.g. size, fabrication or power consumption. Also the onboard electronics has limited performance due to both size and power restriction ...

2006

Micro manipulation by adhesion with two collaborating mobile micro robots

Jean-Marc Breguet, Walter Driesen

A micro manipulation platform consisting of two cubic centimeter sized micro robots each with four degrees of freedom has been developed. This paper discusses four different strategies of manipulation by adhesion for grasping, transferring and releasing a ...

2005

MICRON: Small Autonomous Robot for Cell Manipulation Applications

Jean-Marc Breguet, Walter Driesen

Manipulating in the micro- or even nano world still poses a great challenge to robotics. Conventional (stationary) systems suffer from drawbacks regarding integration into process supervision and multi-robot approaches, which become highly relevant to figh ...

2005

Flexible micro manipulation platform based on tethered cm3-sized mobile micro robots

Jean-Marc Breguet, Walter Driesen

This paper presents a micro manipulation platform based on several cm3-sized mobile micro robots. The proposed platform consists of a high resolution XY stage with the mobile micro robots on top of it, a camera with a microscopic objective for the local vi ...

2005

Mobile cm3-microrobots with tools for nanoscale imaging and micromanipulation

Jean-Marc Breguet, Walter Driesen

This paper presents a microrobot concept for microhandling and micromanipulation, which has been developed within the framework of the EU founded project MiCRoN. The concept is explained along with some examples of realized modules for the robots and a num ...

2004

Monolithic piezoelectric actuators for miniature robotic systems

Jean-Marc Breguet, Walter Driesen

2004

Observation of fracture and plastic deformation during indentation and scratching inside the scanning electron microscope

Jean-Marc Breguet, Franz-Josef Haug, Sven Nico Stauss, Johann Michler

During nanoindentation measurements of thin films the formation of cracks within the film as well as of pile-up or sink-in around the indent are known to affect significantly the precision of hardness and Young's modulus values. The crack pattern in brittl ...

2004

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A review on actuation principls for few cubic millimeter sized mobile micro-robots

Jean-Marc Breguet, Walter Driesen

2006

Observation of fracture and plastic deformation during indentation and scratching inside the scanning electron microscope

Jean-Marc Breguet, Franz-Josef Haug, Sven Nico Stauss, Johann Michler

2004