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Contactless automated manipulation of mesoscale objects using opto-fluidic actuation and visual servoing

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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 $\mu$m in diameter moving in parallel at speeds in the range of mm/s was demonstrated.

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cea-01820314 , version 1 (21-06-2018)

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Emir Vela, Moustapha Hafez, Stephane Regnier. Contactless automated manipulation of mesoscale objects using opto-fluidic actuation and visual servoing. Review of Scientific Instruments, 2014, 85, pp.055107. ⟨10.1063/1.4874744⟩. ⟨cea-01820314⟩
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