Automated micro manipulation system with protein crystal

Author

Ohara, Kenichi ; Ohba, Kohtaro ; Tanikawa, Tamio ; Hiraki, Masahiko ; Wakatsuki, Soichi ; Mizukawa, Makoto ; Tanie, Kazuo

Author_Institution

Tsukuba Univ., Ibaraki, Japan

fYear

2004

fDate

31 Oct.-3 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

301

Lastpage

306

Abstract

The goal of our project is to realize an automation system to operate a protein crystal in the analytical work of protein structure. The system includes a micro hand to manipulate small objects and an integrated vision to observe micro objects with the all-in-focus image. In this paper, new calibration technique is proposed to realize the fine resolution on micro operation, then several experimental results show the validity of our proposed system on an automatic operation using a Φ8μm micro glass ball.

Keywords

biological techniques; calibration; micromanipulators; molecular biophysics; proteins; robot vision; automated micromanipulation system; calibration technique; integrated vision; micro hand; microglass ball; microoperation; protein crystal; protein structure; Biomedical imaging; Calibration; Cameras; DNA; Manufacturing; Proteins; RNA; Robotics and automation; Virtual reality; X-ray imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Micro-Nanomechatronics and Human Science, 2004 and The Fourth Symposium Micro-Nanomechatronics for Information-Based Society, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8607-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MHS.2004.1421322

Filename

1421322