Drug Delivery Based on Swarm Microrobots

dc.contributor.authorBanharnsakun, A.en
dc.contributor.authorAchalakul, T.en
dc.contributor.authorBatra, Romesh C.en
dc.contributor.departmentBiomedical Engineering and Mechanicsen
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-03T18:39:26Zen
dc.date.available2017-03-03T18:39:26Zen
dc.date.issued2016-06en
dc.description.abstractAdvances in the development of technology have led to microrobots applications in medical fields. Drug delivery is one of these applications in which microrobots deliver a pharmaceutical compound to targeted cells. Chemotherapy and its side effects can then be minimized by this method. Two major constraints, however, must be considered: the robot's onboard energy supply and the time needed for drug delivery. Furthermore, a microrobot must avoid biological restricted areas which we treat as obstacles in the path. The main objectives of this work were to find optimal paths to targeted cells and avoid collision with obstacles in the paths under a dynamic environment. In this study, we controlled motion of microrobots based on the concept of swarm intelligence. Artificial Bee Colony (ABC), the Best-so-far ABC, and the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) methods were employed to implement the collision detection and the boundary distance detection modules. Forces that drove or resisted blood flow as well as pressure in blood vessels were considered to approximate the effects of the environment on the microrobots. Numerical experiments were conducted using various obstacle environments. The results confirm that the proposed approaches were successful in avoiding obstacles and optimizing the energy consumption used to reach the target.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.extent1650006 - 1650006 page(s)en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1142/S1469026816500061en
dc.identifier.eissn1757-5885en
dc.identifier.issn1469-0268en
dc.identifier.issue02en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/75228en
dc.identifier.volume15en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.titleDrug Delivery Based on Swarm Microrobotsen
dc.title.serialInternational Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applicationsen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Techen
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/All T&R Facultyen
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/Engineeringen
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/Engineering/Biomedical Engineering and Mechanicsen
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/Engineering/COE T&R Facultyen

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