VLEIBot: A New 45-mg Swimming Microrobot Driven by a Bioinspired Anguilliform Propulsor
Elijah K. Blankenship,Conor K. Trygstad,Francisco M. F. R. Gonçalves,Néstor O. Pérez-Arancibia,Elijah K. Blankenship,Conor K. Trygstad,Francisco M. F. R. Gonçalves,Néstor O. Pérez-Arancibia
This paper presents the VLEIBot* (Very Little Eel-Inspired roBot), a 45-mg/23-mm3 microrobotic swimmer that is propelled by a bioinspired anguilliform propulsor. The propulsor is excited by a single 6-mg high-work-density (HWD) microactuator and undulates periodically due to wave propagation phenomena generated by fluid-structure interaction (FSI) during swimming. The microactuator is composed of ...
