Swimming Characteristics of Soft robot with Magnetoelastic Material Cableless microrobots have exhibit great capabilities for remote applications in small and constrained environments, especially in biotechnology and healthcare. This paper presents a swimmer propelled by its undulatory deformation using magnetoelastic composite material. The robot can move freely on water surface driven through a function of magnetic field, such as forward, backward and steering with different velocity. The magnetic field is generated by 3D Helmholtz coils, and the locomotion of the micro swimming robot is controlled by different applied magnetic field. To understand the characteristics of the swimmer, the force balance equation is established, and the morphologies of swimmer with different magnetic field are analyzed and described through finite element analysis method. Furthermore, we discuss and analyze relationship between the parameters of magnetic field and the speed of the swimmer. The experimental results verified the speed model of the swimming robot, which is influenced by the frequency and strength of magnetic field.

Visual Servoing of Magnetic Swimming Robot Based on Mean Shift and Fast Template Matching Algorithm The actuation and control of miniscale swimming robots have exhibit promising potential in limited and constrained environments, such as biomedical, microassembly and microfluidic applications. However, closedloop control is still a challenging for the precision and repeatability in those applications. In this paper, a new type of softmicro swimming robot based on magnetoelastic composite material is designed, and the swimmer can move freely on the water surface controlled by a rotating magnetic field with visual servoing. The visual feedback control strategy is proposed based on Mean Shift Algorithm and Fast Template Matching. The algorithm includes three parts: prediction, template matching, target positioning and template updating. To understand the characteristics of the swimmer, the relationship between swimming speed and magnetic field strength and frequency is verified by the algorithm in experiments. Furthermore, the proposed path following method with visual servoing applied in this control system. The experimental results show that the algorithm runs fast, has high accuracy and good realtime performance, and can provide great potential in miniscale robot applications.