Elijah K. Blankenship — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

Feedback Control of a Single-Tail Bioinspired 59-mg Swimmer

Conor K. Trygstad, Cody R. Longwell, Francisco M. F. R. Gonçalves, Elijah K. Blankenship, Néstor Osvaldo Pérez-Arancibia

IROS 2025

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)

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2024

A New 10-mg SMA-Based Fast Bimorph Actuator for Microrobotics

Conor K. Trygstad, Elijah K. Blankenship, Néstor O. Pérez-Arancibia

IROS 2024poster

We present a new millimeter-scale bimorph actuator for microrobotic applications, driven by feedforward controlled shape-memory alloy (SMA) wires. The device weighs 10 mg, measures 14 mm in length, and occupies a volume of 4.8 mm3, which makes it the lightest and smallest fully functional SMA-based…

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2024

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

ICRA 2024poster

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 phenome…

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