5 papers
Reprogrammable origami through bistable buckled hinges
Leon M. Kamp, Lucy Liu, Ella McRitchie +5
Origami structures typically have a multiplicity of folded states that are connected to a flat sheet, making the folding protocol for specific end shapes challenging to design and…
Automated Design of Tubular Origami with Anisotropic Stiffness
Mingkai Zhang, Davood Farhadi
Thin sheets can be assembled into tubular origami structures that combine deployability with pronounced anisotropic stiffness, enabling applications ranging from robotics to deploy…
Origami crawlers: exploring a single origami vertex for complex path navigation
Davood Farhadi, Laura Pernigoni, David Melancon +1
The ancient art of origami, traditionally used to transform simple sheets into intricate objects, also holds potential for diverse engineering applications, such as shape morphing…
A Single-Input State-Switching Building Block Harnessing Internal Instabilities
Malte A. ten Wolde, Davood Farhadi
Bistable mechanisms are prevalent across a broad spectrum of applications due to their ability to maintain two distinct stable states. Their energy consumption is predominantly con…
Harnessing Elastic Energy to Transfer Reciprocating Actuation into Rotary Motion
Gregor J. van den Doel, Just L. Herder, Davood Farhadi
The ability to convert reciprocating, i.e., alternating, actuation into rotary motion using linkages is hindered fundamentally by their poor torque transmission capability around k…