A lightweight high-voltage boost circuit for soft-actuated micro-aerial-robots

Zhijian Ren,Jiahui Yang,Suhan Kim,Yi-Hsuan Hsiao,Jeffrey Lang,Yufeng Chen,Zhijian Ren,Jiahui Yang,Suhan Kim,Yi-Hsuan Hsiao,Jeffrey Lang,Yufeng Chen

Flight is an energetically expensive task. While aerial insects can effortlessly fly through natural environments, achieving power autonomous flights in insect-scale robots remains a major challenge. In prior works, we developed soft-actuated insect-scale aerial robots that demonstrated unique capabilities such as in-flight collision recovery and somersaults. However, the soft dielectric elastomer...