Title :
Modeling populations of micro-robots for biological applications
Author :
Bogdan, Paul ; Wei, Guopeng ; Marculescu, Radu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
In order to detect and cure diseases affecting microscopic regions of the human body, swarms of micro-robots can harness the motility of bacteria and swim towards inaccessible regions of the body to detect abnormal behavior and/or deliver various drugs. In this paper, we propose a modeling approach for the dynamics of dense networks of swarms and estimate their performance via stochastic metrics.
Keywords :
drug delivery systems; medical robotics; patient diagnosis; stochastic processes; bacteria motility; biological applications; disease diagnosis; drug delivery; human body; microrobotic swarming; population modeling; random walks; stochastic metrics; Biological system modeling; Drug delivery; Mathematical model; Microorganisms; Random variables; Robots; Random walks; collective dynamics; competitive behavior; dense networks of swarms; disease diagnosis; drug delivery;
Conference_Titel :
Communications (ICC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ottawa, ON
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2052-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1550-3607
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.2012.6364979
