This clearly-expressed, well-organized book introduces designs and prototypes of nanorobotic systems in detail, examining innovative principles of three-dimensional manipulation force microscopy and parallel imaging/manipulation force microscopy.

The atomic force microscope (AFM) has been successfully used to perform nanorobotic manipulation operations on nanoscale entities such as particles, nanotubes, nanowires, nanocrystals, and DNA since 1990s.

There have been many progress on modeling, imaging, teleoperated or automated control, human-machine interfacing, instrumentation, and applications of AFM based nanorobotic manipulation systems in literature. This book aims to include all of such state-of-the-art progress in an organized, structured, and detailed manner as a reference book and also potentially a textbook in nanorobotics and any other nanoscale dynamics, systems and controls related research and education.

Clearly written and well-organized, this text introduces designs and prototypes of the nanorobotic systems in detail with innovative principles of three-dimensional manipulation force microscopy and parallel imaging/manipulation force microscopy.

Presents new ideas for three-dimensional and high-efficiency parallel nanomanipulation using newly developed nanorobots based on the principle of atomic force microscopy Clearly written and well-organized, this text introduces designs and prototypes of the nanorobotic systems Extensive review of nanorobotics history, principles of atomic force microscopy, modelling of pick-and-place nanomanipulation, and design and development of nanorobotic systems Includes experimental results and extended applications of the proposed nanorobotic systems

Inhalt

Descriptions and challenges of AFM based nanorobotic systems.-

Instrumentation issues of an AFM based nanorobotic system.-

Nanomechanics of AFM based nanomanipulation.-

Teleoperation based AFM manipulation control.-

Automated control of AFM based nanomanipulation.-

Applications of AFM based nanorobotic systems. <p