Current Projects

Opportunities for ETH Students at Carnegie Mellon University:

MS or Diploma Thesis in agent-based microassembly, 2009

MS Thesis in haptics, 2009

Internships

The following is an opportunity for a MSc. Thesis / Internship (details see below). You can either contact Optotune directly or Olgac Ergeneman, oergeneman@ethz.ch.

MSc. Thesis / Internship at Optotune AG, Dübendorf, Switzerland

Former Projects

This section offers some former projects that have been done at IRIS.

Publications in collaboration with students

K. E. Peyer, L. Zhang, B. E. Kratochvil, B. J. Nelson, "Non-Ideal Swimming of Artificial Bacterial Flagella Near a Surface", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2010 (Best Student Paper Award).
L. Zhang, T. Petit, Y. Lu, B. E. Kratochvil, K. E. Peyer, R. Pei, J. Lou, B. J. Nelson, "Controlled Propulsion and Cargo Transport of Rotating Nickel Nanowires near a Patterned Solid Surface", ACS Nano, Vol. 4, No. 10, October 2010, pp. 6228-6234.
L. Zhang, T. Petit, K. E. Peyer, B. E. Kratochvil, J. Zhang, J. Lou, B. J. Nelson, "Noncontact and Contact Micromanipulation Using a Rotating Nickel Nanowire", Proc. in IEEE International Conference on Nano/Molecular Medicine and Engineering (IEEE-NANOMED 2010), Hong Kong/Macau, December 2010 (Best Paper Award).
L. Zhang, K. E. Peyer, T. Petit, B. E. Kratochvil, B. J. Nelson, "Motion Control of Artificial Bacterial Flagella", Proc. of the 10th IEEE Conf. on Nanotechnology (IEEE NANO 2010), Seoul, Korea, August 2010.
L. Zhang, J. J. Abbott, L. X. Dong, K. E. Peyer, B. E. Kratochvil, H. X. Zhang, C. Bergeles, B. J. Nelson, "Characterizing the Swimming Properties of Artificial Bacterial Flagella", Nano Letters, Vol. 9, No. 10, October 2009, pp. 3663-3667
S. Pané, O. Ergeneman, K. Sivaraman, E. Pellicer, M. Baro and B.J. Nelson, Preliminary studies on the electrodeposition of cobalt-yttrium from baths containing glycine, 216th ECS Meeting in Vienna, Austria, October 2009
O. Ergeneman, K. Sivaraman, E. Pellicer, M. Baro, A. Hirt, A. Teleki, S. Pané and B.J. Nelson, Magnetic properties of electrodeposited cobalt-nickel thin films from acidic baths containing glycine, 216th ECS Meeting in Vienna, Austria, October 2009
L. Zhang, J. J. Abbott, L. X. Dong, B. E. Kratochvil, H. X. Zhang, K. E. Peyer, B. J. Nelson, "Micromanipulation Using Artificial Bacterial Flagella", Proc. of IEEE/RSJ 2009 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2009), St. Louis, MO, USA, October 2009.
O. Ergeneman, M. Suter, G. Chatzipirpiridis, J. Zürcher, S. Graf, S. Pane, C. Hierold and B. J. Nelson, Characterization and Actuation of a Magnetic Photosensitive Polymer Cantilever, International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technologies (ISOT2009), Istanbul, Turkey, September 2009
L. Zhang, Y. Lu, L. X. Dong, R. Pei, J. Lou, B. E. Kratochvil, B. J. Nelson, "Noncontact Manipulation of Ni Nanowires Using a Rotating Magnetic Field", Proc. in the 9th IEEE Conf. on Nanotechnology (IEEE NANO2009), Genoa, Italy, July 2009.
Z. Nagy, R. Oung, J.J. Abbott, B.J. Nelson "Experimental Investigation of Magnetic Self-Assembly for Swallowable Modular Robots", Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2008), Nice, France, September 2008
Z. Nagy, O. Ergenman, J. J Abbott, M. Hutter, A. M. Hirt, and B. J. Nelson, "Modeling Assembled-MEMS Microrobots for Wireless Magnetic Control", Proc. of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2008), Pasadena, CA, USA, May 2008, pp.874-879
G. Dogangil, O. Ergeneman, S. Muntwyler, J. J. Abbott, and B. J. Nelson, "In Vivo characterization of Vessel Puncture Forces for Robot-Assisted Retinal Vein Cannulation", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
J.J. Abbott, K.E. Peyer, L.X. Dong, and B.J. Nelson, "How Should Microrobots Swim?", International Symposium of Robotics Research, Hiroshima, Japan, November 26-29, 2007.
O. Ergeneman, G. Dogangil, M. Kummer, J.J. Abbott, K. Nazeeruddin, and B.J. Nelson, "A Magnetically controlled Wireless Optical Oxygen Sensor for Intraocular Measurements", IEEE Sensors Journal.
M. Probst, C. Hürzeler, R. Borer, B. J. Nelson, Virtual Reality for Microassembly, International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technologies, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 2007
O. Ergeneman, G. Dogangil, J. J. Abbott, K. Nazeeruddin, and B. J. Nelson, "A Magnetically controlled Wireless Intraocular Oxygen Sensor: Concept, Prototype and In Vitro Experiments", International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp. 4189-4193, August 2007.
D.J. Bell, Ph. Rüst, L.X. Dong, S. Schön, and B.J. Nelson, "Conductometric sensors based on InGaAs/GaAs nanocoils", 20th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, Kobe, Japan, January 21-25, 2007.
D.J. Bell, S. Leutenegger, K.M. Hammar, L.X. Dong, B.J. Nelson, "Flagella-like Propulsion for Microrobots Using a Magnetic nanocoil and a Rotating Electromagnetic Fiels", 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1128-1133, 2007.
K.B Yesin, P. Exner, K. Vollmers, and B.J. Nelson, "Design and Control of In-Vivo Magnetic Microrobots", Proc. 8th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2005), Palm Springs, USA, 26-29 October 2005.
B.E. Kratochvil, K.B. Yesin, V. Hess, B.J. Nelson, "Design of a Visually Guided 6 DOF Micromanipulator System for 3D Assembly of Hybrid MEMS", Proc. 4th Int. Workshop on Microfactories, Shanghai, October 2004.
Y. Sun, S. Duthaler and B.J. Nelson, "Autofocusing Algorithm Selection in Computer Microscopy", Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Edmonton, Canada, August 2005.
Y. Sun, S. Duthaler, B.J. Nelson, "Autofocusing in computer microscopy – selecting the optimal focus algorithm", Microscopy Research and Technique, Vol. 65, No. 3, pp. 139-149, 2004.