Remote control non-contact manipulation system for micro robotics

Acoustic lévitation as a kind of non-contact operation can be used in the manipulation of micro robotics. Nowadays, remote control of robotics has been widely researched, which is convenient allowing operation of devices that are out of reach for direct contact. However, most of previous acoustic levitation works are based on direct operation. To realize remote control of non-contact manipulation, Kinect sensor is connected to acoustic levitation platform as voice recognition input device. The command from operators could be convert to stepper motor actuating levitation platform which results in the movement of levitated object. The experiment result shows that levitated styrene foam bead can move vertically at a certain linear speed by remote voice control.