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Modular fabrication and design of thick rigid-foldable origami metamaterials
Sunao Tomita, Hiroki Kobayashi, Shoko Arita +4
Origami metamaterials offer significant potential for stiff deployable structures However, fabricating load-bearing cellular structures from thick panels introduces geometric inter…
Automated design of soft-rigid hybrid robots for dynamic locomotion
Hiroki Kobayashi, Yuki Takaha, Changyoung Yuhn +4
Rigid-bodied robots often lack compliance needed to adapt to unstructured environments, while fully soft robots, though highly adaptable, struggle with scalability and load capacit…
Computational co-design of structure and feedback controller for locomoting soft robots
Yuki Sato, Changyoung Yuhn, Hiroki Kobayashi +2
Soft robots have gained significant attention due to their flexibility and safety, particularly in human-centric applications. The co-design of structure and controller in soft rob…
Shell topology optimization based on level set method
Hiroki Kobayashi, Katsuya Nomura, Yuqing Zhou +3
This paper proposes a level set-based method for optimizing shell structures with large design changes in shape and topology. Conventional shell optimization methods, whether param…
Stiff deployable structures via coupling of thick Miura-ori tubes along creases
Sunao Tomita, Kento Shimanuki, Kazuhiko Umemoto +3
Origami-based structures play an important role in the realization of deployable mechanisms and unique mechanical properties via programmable deformation by folding. Among origami-…
Computational synthesis of locomotive soft robots by topology optimization
Hiroki Kobayashi, Farzad Gholami, S. Macrae Montgomery +7
Locomotive soft robots (SoRos) have gained prominence due to their adaptability. Traditional locomotive SoRo design is based on limb structures inspired by biological organisms and…