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Influence of geometry on swimming performance of helical swimmers using DoE

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Helical microswimmers capable of propulsion at low Reynolds numbers have been proposed for numerous applications, ranging from in vitro tasks on lab-on-a-chip to in vivo applications for minimally invasive medicine. Several magnetically actuated helical swimmers with different geometry parameters have been proposed in prior works. However, the influence of the geometrical parameters on their swimming performance has not been clearly studied. In this paper, we propose a dimensionless study on the geometrical parameters using Design of Experiments (DoE), in order to find the influential geometrical parameters on the swimming performance. We found that the most influential geometrical parameter on the swimming performance is the pitch of the helix. A helical swimmer with longer pitch shows better swimming performance in our testing range. The effects of the factors obtained by the experiments are also compared to the effects estimated by the theoretical sensitivity analysis.

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge funding from Émergence-UPMC-2012 research program, the Franche-Comté region, and ACTION, the French ANR Labex no. ANR-11-LABX-01-01. The authors are also grateful to Sinan Haliyo, Sylvain Pledel, Christophe Grand, Jean-ochin Abrahamians, Ali Oulmas, Antoine Weill-Duflos, and Tianyi Li for providing technical supports on the expermental setup.

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  1. Institut des Système Intelligents et de Robotique (ISIR), Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06 / CNRS UMR-7222, BC 173, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France

    Tiantian Xu & Stéphane Régnier

  2. Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Tiantian Xu

  3. Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, CNRS, Route de Nozay, Marcoussis, 91460, France

    Gilgueng Hwang

  4. FEMTO-ST Institute, UFC, ENSMM, UTBM, CNRS UMR-6174, 24 rue Alain Savary, 25000, Besançon, France

    Nicolas Andreff

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Xu, T., Hwang, G., Andreff, N. et al. Influence of geometry on swimming performance of helical swimmers using DoE. J Micro-Bio Robot 11, 57–66 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12213-015-0084-5

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