Folding Angle Regulation by Curved Crease Design for Self-Assembling Origami Propellers

Folding Angle Regulation by Curved Crease Design for Self-Assembling Origami Propellers

© 2015 by ASME. This paper describes a method for manufacturing complex three-dimensional curved structures by self-folding layered materials. Our main focus is to first show that the material can cope with curved crease self-folding and then to utilize the curvature to predict the folding angles. T...

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Main Authors: Miyashita, Shuhei, DiDio, Isabella, Ananthabhotla, Ishwarya, An, Byoungkwon, Sung, Cynthia, Arabagi, Slava, Rus, Daniela
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ASME International 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/134250
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Summary:© 2015 by ASME. This paper describes a method for manufacturing complex three-dimensional curved structures by self-folding layered materials. Our main focus is to first show that the material can cope with curved crease self-folding and then to utilize the curvature to predict the folding angles. The self-folding process employs uniform heat to induce selffolding of the material and shows the successful generation of several types of propellers as a proof of concept. We further show the resulting device is functional by demonstrating its levitation in the presence of a magnetic field applied remotely.

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