Mechatronics Systems for Small Scale Robotics

Over the past decades, magnetic actuation gained popularity for medical intervention and treatments. Magnetic actuation systems initially were only equipped with optical monitoring. Later studies include integrated in-vivo capable modules like X-Ray, MRI and MPI. Despite these advancements, the global homogeneous actuation, small region of interest, low magnetic intensity are only a few of the open challenges for these devices. My main research objective is to develop practical electromagnetic systems for in vivo and in vitro (lab/body on chip) studies.

Journal Publications

1) X. Zhang, T. A. Le, A. K. Hoshiar, and J. Yoon, “A Soft Magnetic Core Can Enhance Navigation Performance of Magnetic Nanoparticles in Targeted Drug Delivery”, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol. 23 (4), pp. 1573 - 1584, 2018.

2) T.A. Le, Zh. Zingming, A. K. Hoshiar, J. Yoon “Real-time Two-dimensional Magnetic Particle Imaging for Electromagnetic Navigation in Targeted Drug Delivery”, Sensors, 17, no. 9, pp. 2050, 2017.

3) T.A. Le, Zh. Zingming, A. K. Hoshiar, J. Yoon, “A Novel Electromagnetic Actuation Scheme for Focusing Magnetic Micro/nano-carriers into a Deep Target Region”, AIP Advances, Vol. 7, pp. 056724, 2017.

Conference Publications

1) A. Mousavi, H. Khaksar, A. Ahmed, H. Choi, A. K. Hoshiar*, " Magnetics microrobots control using an adaptive fuzzy sliding-mode method" in 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022

2) A. K. Hoshiar+, T. A. Le+, X. Zhang+, and J. Yoon, "An electromagnetic navigation system with real-time 2D magnetic particle imaging for targeted drug delivery," in 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017, pp. 1895-1900. (+ Equal contributors).