NanoRobotics Laboratory

Eric Diller

e-mail: ediller (AT) andrew.cmu.edu
Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering
B.S., M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University 2009

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Research Projects

Magnetic Micro Robots
Reconfigurable Magnetic Micro Modules
Swimming Micro Robots
Climbing Robots: DIGbot (M.S. research at CWRU)

Undergraduate Advisees

Prakjit Jena
Naicheng Zhang
Sadik Tacettinoglu

Publications

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Journal Articles

E. Diller, J. Giltinan and M. Sitti, "Independent Control of Multiple Magnetic Microrobots in Three Dimensions," International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 614-631, 2013. link.
S. Miyashita, E. Diller and M. Sitti, "Two-Dimensional Magnetic Micro-Module Reconfigurations Based on Inter-Modular Interactions," International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 591-613, 2013. link.
Z. Ye, E. Diller and M. Sitti, "Micro-Manipulation Using Rotational Fluid Flows Induced by Wireless Magnetic Micro-Manipulators," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 112, no. 6, 064912, 2012. pdf. link.
D. Kim, A. Liu, E. Diller and M. Sitti, "Chemotactic Steering of Bacteria Propelled Microbeads," Biomedical Microdevices, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 1009-1017, 2012. link.
E. Diller, S. Miyashita and M. Sitti, "Remotely Addressable Magnetic Composite Micropumps," RSC Advances, vol. 2, no. 9, pp. 3850-3856, 2012. link.
E. Diller, S. Floyd, C. Pawashe, and M. Sitti, ''Control of Multiple Heterogeneous Magnetic Micro-Robots in Two Dimensions,'' IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 28, 172-182, 2012. pdf. link.
C. Pawashe, S. Floyd, E. Diller, and M. Sitti, ''Two-Dimensional Autonomous Micro-Particle Manipulation Strategies for Magnetic Micro-Robots in Fluidic Environments," IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 28, 467-477, 2012. pdf. link.
E. Diller, C. Pawashe, S. Floyd, and M. Sitti, ''Assembly and Disassembly of Magnetic Mobile Micro-Robots towards Deterministic 2-D Reconfigurable Micro-Systems,'' International Journal of Robotics Research, vol 31, 1667-1680, 2011. pdf. link.
S. Floyd, E. Diller, C. Pawashe, and M. Sitti, ''Control Methodologies for a Heterogeneous Group of Untethered Magnetic Micro-Robots,'' International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 30, 1553-1565, 2011 pdf. link.

Refereed Conference Articles

E. Diller, J. Giltinan, P. Jena, and M. Sitti, "Three Dimensional Independent Control of Multiple Magnetic Microrobots," IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013 (accepted).
E. Diller, N. Zhang and M. Sitti, "Bonding Methods for Modular Micro-Robot Assemblies," IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013 (accepted).
E. Diller, S. Miyashita and M. Sitti, "Magnetic Hysteresis for Multi-State Addressable Magnetic Microrobotic Control", Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura, Portugal, pp. 2325-2331, Oct. 2012.
E. Diller, Z. Ye and M. Sitti, "Rotating Magnetic Micro-Robots for Versatile Non-Contact Fluidic Manipulation of Micro-Objects" invited paper, Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Fransisco, pp. 1291 - 1296, Sept. 2011.
J. Singleton, E. Diller, T. Anderson, S. Regnier and M. Sitti, "Micro-Scale Propulsion using Multiple Flexible Artificial Flagella" invited paper, Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Fransisco, pp. 1687-1692, Sept. 2011.
C. Pawashe, E. Diller, S. Floyd, and M. Sitti, ''Assembly and Disassembly Methods for Magnetic Micro-Robots towards 2-D Reconfigurable Micro-Systems,'' IEEE Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai, China, pp. 261-266, May 2011.
E. Diller, S. Floyd, C. Pawashe, and M. Sitti, ''Control of Multiple Heterogeneous Magnetic Micro-Robots on Non-Specialized Surfaces,'' IEEE Conf. on Robotics and Automation, invited paper, Shanghai, China, pp. 115-120, May 2011.
L. Palmer III, E. Diller, R. Quinn. "Toward a Rapid and Robust Attachment Strategy for Vertical Climbing," IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, pp. 2810 - 2815, May 2010.
L. Palmer III, E. Diller, R. Quinn. "Design of a Wall-Climbing Hexapod for Advanced Maneuvers," Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, pp. 625 - 630, Oct. 2009.
L. Palmer III, E. Diller, R. Quinn "Design Aspects of a Climbing Hexapod," Int. Conf. on Climbing and Walking Robots, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 197-204, 2009.
G. Wile, K. Daltorio, E. Diller, L. Palmer, S. Gorb, R. Ritzmann, and R. Quinn "Screenbot: Walking Inverted Using Distributed Inward Gripping," Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Nice, France, pp. 1513 - 1518, 2008.

Other Conference Articles

P. Jena, E. Diller, J. Giltinan and M. Sitti, "Neutrally Buoyant Microrobots for Enhanced 3D Control", Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, workshop on Magnetically Actuated Multiscale Medical Robots, 2012.
R.D. Quinn, A. Boxerbaum, L. Palmer, H. Chiel, E. Diller, A. Hunt, R. Bachmann, "Novel Locomotion via Biological Inspiration" Proc. SPIE, 804511, 2011.