Buckling-induced smart applications: recent advances and trends

N Hu, R Burgueño - Smart Materials and Structures, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
A paradigm shift has emerged over the last decade pointing to an exciting research area
dealing with the harnessing of elastic structural instabilities for'smart'purposes in a variety of …

Origami with rotational symmetry: A review on their mechanics and design

L Lu, S Leanza, RR Zhao - Applied …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Origami has emerged as a powerful mechanism for designing functional foldable and
deployable structures. Among various origami patterns, a large class of origami exhibits …

Spinning-enabled wireless amphibious origami millirobot

Q Ze, S Wu, J Dai, S Leanza, G Ikeda, PC Yang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Wireless millimeter-scale origami robots have recently been explored with great potential for
biomedical applications. Existing millimeter-scale origami devices usually require separate …

Origami-inspired, on-demand deployable and collapsible mechanical metamaterials with tunable stiffness

Z Zhai, Y Wang, H Jiang - Proceedings of the National …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Origami has been employed to build deployable mechanical metamaterials through folding
and unfolding along the crease lines. Deployable metamaterials are usually flexible …

Reentrant origami-based metamaterials with negative Poisson's ratio and bistability

H Yasuda, J Yang - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
We investigate the unique mechanical properties of reentrant 3D origami structures based
on the Tachi-Miura polyhedron (TMP). We explore the potential usage as mechanical …

Harnessing the multistability of kresling origami for reconfigurable articulation in soft robotic arms

J Kaufmann, P Bhovad, S Li - Soft Robotics, 2022 - liebertpub.com
This study examines a biology-inspired approach of using reconfigurable articulation to
reduce the control requirement for soft robotic arms. We construct a robotic arm by …

An origami-inspired approach to worm robots

CD Onal, RJ Wood, D Rus - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an origami-inspired technique which allows the application of 2-D
fabrication methods to build 3-D robotic systems. The ability to design robots as origami …

Origami-based tunable truss structures for non-volatile mechanical memory operation

H Yasuda, T Tachi, M Lee, J Yang - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Origami has recently received significant interest from the scientific community as a method
for designing building blocks to construct metamaterials. However, the primary focus has …

Review of inflatable booms for deployable space structures: packing and rigidization

M Schenk, AD Viquerat, KA Seffen… - Journal of Spacecraft and …, 2014 - arc.aiaa.org
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Peristaltic locomotion without digital controllers: Exploiting multi-stability in origami to coordinate robotic motion

P Bhovad, J Kaufmann, S Li - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2019 - Elsevier
This study examines a novel approach to generate peristaltic-like locomotion in a
segmented origami robot. Specifically, we demonstrate the use of multi-stability embedded …