Feedback Control of a Single-Tail Bioinspired 59-mg Swimmer
We present an evolved steerable version of the single-tail Fish-&-Ribbon-Inspired Small Swimming Harmonic roBot (FRISSHBot), a 59-mg biologically inspired swimmer, which is driven by a new shape-memory alloy (SMA)-based bimorph actuator. The new FRISSHBot is controllable in the two-dimensional (2D) space, which enabled the first demonstration of feedback-controlled trajectory tracking of a single-tail aquatic robot with onboard actuation at the subgram scale. These new capabilities are the result of a physics-informed design with an enlarged head and shortened tail relative to those of the original platform. Enhanced by its design, this new platform achieves forward swimming speeds of up to 13.6 mm/s (0.38 Bl/s), which is over four times that of the original platform. Furthermore, when following 2D references in closed loop, the tested FRISSHBot prototype attains forward swimming speeds of up to 9.1 mm/s, root-mean-square (RMS) tracking errors as low as 2.6 mm, turning rates of up to 13.1 °/s, and turning radii as small as 10 mm.
Code (0)
등록된 구현이 없습니다.
Similar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
An Autonomous Subgram SMA-Based Swimmer
We present the Swima, a bioinspired 900-mg swimmer propelled by two 10-mg high-work-density (HWD) actuators driven by shape-memory alloy (SMA) wires. We integrated onboard power and computation by using a custom-built pr…
VLEIBot: A New 45-mg Swimming Microrobot Driven by a Bioinspired Anguilliform Propulsor
This paper presents the VLEIBot^* (Very Little Eel-Inspired roBot), a 45-mg/23-mm^3 microrobotic swimmer that is propelled by a bioinspired anguilliform propulsor. The propulsor is excited by a single 6-mg high-work-dens…
Integral Line-of-Sight Path Following Control of Magnetic Helical Microswimmers Subject to Step-Out Frequencies
This paper investigates the problem of straight-line path following for magnetic helical microswimmers. The control objective is to make the helical microswimmer to converge to a straight line without violating the step-…
A Multimodal Tiltwing Framework for Bioinspired Aerial Robots
Tailless flapping-wing micro-aerial vehicles (FWMAVs) mimic the impressive flight performance of hummingbirds, utilising unsteady aerodynamic effects. However, existing designs are still limited and purpose-built with a …
Bioinspired123D: Generative 3D Modeling System for Bioinspired Structures
Generative AI has made rapid progress in text, image, and video synthesis, yet text-to-3D modeling for scientific design remains particularly challenging due to limited controllability and high computational cost. Most e…
3D GenerationPoint Clouds