[HTML][HTML] Batteries for small-scale robotics

M Zhu, OG Schmidt - MRS Bulletin, 2024 - Springer
The advent of small-scale robots holds immense potential for revolutionizing various
industries, particularly in the domains of surgery and operations within confined spaces that …

High energy density picoliter-scale zinc-air microbatteries for colloidal robotics

G Zhang, S Yang, JF Yang, D Gonzalez-Medrano… - Science Robotics, 2024 - science.org
The recent interest in microscopic autonomous systems, including microrobots, colloidal
state machines, and smart dust, has created a need for microscale energy storage and …

RFIC Reuse Techniques to Enable Ultra-Low-Power IoT: A Tutorial

K Xu, X Kong, RB Staszewski - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy-efficient and cost-effective wireless connectivity is of paramount importance for
Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications and has inspired a lot of research interests lately. Reuse …

A millimeter-scale crystal-less MICS transceiver for insertable smart pills

M Song, M Ding, E Tiurin, K Xu… - … Circuits and Systems, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a millimeter-scale crystal-less wireless transceiver for volume-
constrained insertable pills. Operating in the 402-405 MHz medical implant communication …

An ultralow power burst-chirp UWB radar transceiver for indoor vital signs and occupancy sensing in 40-nm CMOS

YH Liu, S Sheelavant, M Mercuri… - IEEE Solid-State …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents an ultrawideband (UWB) radar for occupancy and vital signs detection.
The proposed burst-chirp operation achieves> 30× power reduction and abundant margin …

A crystal-less BLE transmitter with clock recovery from GFSK-modulated BLE packets

X Chen, A Alghaihab, Y Shi… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we present a crystal-less Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) transmitter using RF
reference recovery directly from GFSK-modulated BLE packets. In order to achieve fast …

30.8 a 3.5 mm× 3.8 mm crystal-less MICS transceiver featuring coverages of±160ppm carrier frequency offset and 4.8-VSWR antenna impedance for insertable smart …

M Song, M Ding, E Tiurin, K Xu… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gastroscopy is a common diagnosis method for gastrointestinal (GI) diseases, but it needs to
be performed in hospitals. Existing ingestible pills can collect patients' GI information over a …

Magnetic Milli-Robot swarm platform: a safety barrier certificate enabled, low-cost test bed

A Hsu, H Zhao, M Gaudreault, AW Foy… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Swarms of microand milli-sized robots have the potential to advance biological micro-
manipulation, microassembly and manufacturing, and provide an ideal platform for studying …

[HTML][HTML] 6TiSCH on SCμM: running a synchronized protocol stack without crystals

T Chang, T Watteyne, B Wheeler, F Maksimovic… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
We report the first time-synchronized protocol stack running on a crystal-free device. We use
an early prototype of the Single-Chip micro Mote, SCμM, a single-chip 2× 3 mm2 mote-on-a …

A jumping silicon microrobot with electrostatic inchworm motors and energy storing substrate springs

CB Schindler, JT Greenspun… - … Conference on Solid …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the first demonstration of a silicon microrobot using electrostatic inchworm
motors to store mechanical energy in springs etched into the silicon substrate. The …