Sylvain Martel

Seyed Nasr Tabatabaei, Sonia Duchemin, Helene Girouard, Sylvain Martel: Towards MR-navigable nanorobotic carriers for drug delivery into the brain. ICRA 2012: 727-732

Nina Olamaei, Farida Cheriet, Sylvain Martel: 3D reconstruction of microvasculature in MRI using magnetic microparticles. ISSPA 2012: 490-495

Sylvain Martel: Signal and image processing in medical nanorobotics: The art of tracking and imaging therapeutics navigated in the vascular network towards the region to be treated. ISSPA 2012: 611-617

Seyed Nasr Tabatabaei, Jacinthe Lapointe, Sylvain Martel: Shrinkable Hydrogel-Based Magnetic Microrobots for Interventions in the Vascular Network. Advanced Robotics 25(8): 1049-1067 (2011)

Frederick P. Gosselin, David Zhou, Viviane Lalande, Manuel Vonthron, Sylvain Martel: Miniature ferromagnetic robot fish actuated by a clinical magnetic resonance scanner. IROS 2011: 901-906

Manuel Vonthron, Viviane Lalande, Gaël Bringout, Charles Tremblay, Sylvain Martel: A MRI-based integrated platform for the navigation of microdevices and microrobots. IROS 2011: 1285-1290

Ouajdi Felfoul, Mahmood Mohammadi, Louis Gaboury, Sylvain Martel: Tumor targeting by computer controlled guidance of Magnetotactic Bacteria acting like autonomous microrobots. IROS 2011: 1304-1308

Sylvain Martel, Mahmood Mohammadi: Using a swarm of self-propelled natural microrobots in the form of flagellated bacteria to perform complex micro-assembly tasks. ICRA 2010: 500-505

Sylvain Martel, Mahmood Mohammadi, Ouajdi Felfoul, Zhao Lu, Pierre Pouponneau: Flagellated Magnetotactic Bacteria as Controlled MRI-trackable Propulsion and Steering Systems for Medical Nanorobots Operating in the Human Microvasculature. I. J. Robotic Res. 28(4): 571-582 (2009)

Sylvain Martel, Ouajdi Felfoul, Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Arnaud Chanu, Samer Tamaz, Mahmood Mohammadi, Martin Mankiewicz, Seyed Nasr Tabatabaei: MRI-based Medical Nanorobotic Platform for the Control of Magnetic Nanoparticles and Flagellated Bacteria for Target Interventions in Human Capillaries. I. J. Robotic Res. 28(9): 1169-1182 (2009)

Sylvain Martel, Walder Andre, Mahmood Mohammadi, Zhao Lu, Ouajdi Felfoul: Towards swarms of communication-enabled and intelligent sensotaxis-based bacterial microrobots capable of collective tasks in an aqueous medium. ICRA 2009: 2617-2622

Ouajdi Felfoul, Eric Aboussouan, Arnaud Chanu, Sylvain Martel: Real-time positioning and tracking technique for endovascular untethered microrobots propelled by MRI gradients. ICRA 2009: 2693-2698

Sylvain Martel, Mahmood Mohammadi: A robotic micro-assembly process inspired by the construction of the ancient pyramids and relying on several thousand flagellated bacteria acting as micro-workers. IROS 2009: 426-427

Seyed Nasr Tabatabaei, Jacinthe Lapointe, Sylvain Martel: Hydrogel encapsulated magnetic nanoparticles as hyperthermic actuators for microrobots designed to operate in the vascular network. IROS 2009: 546-551

Gaël Bringout, Sajjad Saeidlou, Sylvain Martel: Sub-micrometer Network Fabrication for Bacterial Carriers and Electrical Signal Transmission. NanoNet 2009: 46-50

Samer Tamaz, Richard Gourdeau, Arnaud Chanu, Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Sylvain Martel: Real-Time MRI-Based Control of a Ferromagnetic Core for Endovascular Navigation. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Engineering 55(7): 1854-1863 (2008)

Ouajdi Felfoul, Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Gilles Beaudoin, Sylvain Martel: In Vivo MR-Tracking Based on Magnetic Signature Selective Excitation. IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 27(1): 28-35 (2008)

Pascal Hannoyer, Kwangsoo Kim, Sylvain Martel: Cooling an Array of High-Powered Miniature Robots Using Forced Air Convection. IEEE T. Automation Science and Engineering 4(3): 373-381 (2007)

Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Sylvain Martel: In vivo validation of a propulsion method for untethered medical microrobots using a clinical magnetic resonance imaging system. IROS 2007: 502-508

Sylvain Martel, Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Ouajdi Felfoul, Arnaud Chanu, Eric Aboussouan, Samer Tamaz, Pierre Pouponneau, L'Hocine Yahia, Gilles Beaudoin, Gilles Soulez, Martin Mankiewicz: Medical and Technical Protocol for Automatic Navigation of a Wireless Device in the Carotid Artery of a Living Swine Using a Standard Clinical MRI System. MICCAI (1) 2007: 144-152

Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Gilles Beaudoin, Sylvain Martel: Method of propulsion of a ferromagnetic core in the cardiovascular system through magnetic gradients generated by an MRI system. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Engineering 53(2): 292-299 (2006)

Walder Andre, Sylvain Martel: Design of Photovoltaic Cells to Power Control Electronics Embedded in Untethered Aqueous Microrobots Propelled by Bacteria. IROS 2006: 1335-1340

Sylvain Martel: Fundamental Principles and Issues of High-speed Piezoactuated Three-legged Motion for Miniature Robots Designed for Nanometer-scale Operations. I. J. Robotic Res. 24(7): 575-588 (2005)

Timothy Fofonoff, Sylvain Martel, Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos, John P. Donoghue, Ian W. Hunter: Microelectrode array fabrication by electrical discharge machining and chemical etching. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Engineering 51(6): 890-895 (2004)

Dominic St-Jacques, Thomas Boitani, Pierre-Alain Dumas, Marc-Antoine Ducas, Marc-Antoine Fortin, Sylvain Martel: Atomic-scale Positioning Reference Grid System for Miniature Robots with Embedded Scanning Tunnelling Capability. ICRA 2004: 1339-1344

Sylvain Martel, Guido Baumann: Infrared positioning and communication unit for a nanorobotics platform operating in a cold Helium atmosphere. IROS 2003: 1876-1881

Sylvain Martel, Stefen Riebel, Torsten Koker, Mark Sherwood, Ian W. Hunter: Large-scale nanorobotic factory automation based on the NanoWalker technology. ETFA (2) 2001: 591-597

Sylvain Martel, Mark Sherwood, Chad Helm, William Garcia de Quevedo, Timothy Fofonoff, Robert Dyer, John Bevilacqua: Three-legged Wireless Miniature Robots for Mass-scale Operations at the Sub-atomic Scale. ICRA 2001: 3423-3428