We present a laterally emitting, coupled cavity micro fluidic dye ring laser, suitable for integration into lab-on-a-chip micro systems. The micro-fluidic laser has been successfully designed, fabricated, characterized and modelled. The resonator is formed by a micro-fluidic channel bounded by two isosceles triangle mirrors. The micro-fluidic laser structure is defined using photo lithography i...

We introduce fluidic games, a type of casual creator that blends game play and game design. Fluidic games have a core of built-in games that anchor a space of design possibilities around them, and encourage players to alternate between playing specific games and playing with the design space. Our Gamika Technology platform supports fluidic games on mobile devices, and we have thus far built thr...

In this paper, we discuss nanoliter metering, transportation, merging, and biochemical reaction on a nanoliter fluidic chip. The proposed nanoliter fluidic handling is based on passive fluidic control using hydrophobic valving and liquid flow control by selective wettability patterning. For the selective patterning of the wettability, a hydrophobic fluorocarbon (FC) film (a mixture of FluoradTM...

A novel balance control method for a humanoid robot is presented. It consists of a contact torque controller which is designed to have a good backdrivability and a feedback control of the total angular momentum and the center of gravity of a robot. A simulation result of a balance control using a 26 DOF humanoid robot model is shown.

We present a laterally emitting, coupled cavity micro fluidic dye ring laser, suitable for integration into lab-on-a-chip micro systems. The micro-fluidic laser has been successfully designed, fabricated, characterized and modelled. The resonator is formed by a micro-fluidic channel bounded by two isosceles triangle mirrors. The micro-fluidic laser structure is defined using photo lithography i...

The concept of fluidic multipoles, in analogy to electrostatics, has long been known as a particular class of solutions of the Navier-Stokes equation in potential flows; however, experimental observations of fluidic multipoles and of their characteristics have not been reported yet. Here we present a two-dimensional microfluidic quadrupole and a theoretical analysis consistent with the experime...

The Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLFR) is a linear-concentrating solar thermal energy system currently in the prototype stage at the Liddell power station in the Hunter Valley, NSW. A system-level thermo-fluidic model for the CLFR has been developed in order to predict steady-state operating conditions, required pumping power and pressure, mass transfer around the system and likely startup...

The present paper discusses the control design of a magnetically-guided microrobotic system in blood vessels to perform minimally invasive medical procedures. Such microrobots consist of a polymer binded aggregate of nanosized ferromagnetic particles and a possible payload that can be propelled by the gradient coils of a magnetic device. A fine modeling is developed and used to define an optima...

Due to the lack of continuous flows that would wash unwanted specifies and impurities off from a target location, droplet microfluidics commonly employs a long serial dilution process to purify target species. In this work, we achieve high-purity separation for the case of electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) based droplet microfluidics by introducing a "fluidic conduit" between a sample droplet...