Engineering origami: A comprehensive review of recent applications, design methods, and tools

M Meloni, J Cai, Q Zhang, D Sang‐Hoon Lee… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Origami‐based designs refer to the application of the ancient art of origami to solve
engineering problems of different nature. Despite being implemented at dimensions that …

Design, fabrication and control of origami robots

D Rus, MT Tolley - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018 - nature.com
Origami robots are created using folding processes, which provide a simple approach to
fabricating a wide range of robot morphologies. Inspired by biological systems, engineers …

Diffaqua: A differentiable computational design pipeline for soft underwater swimmers with shape interpolation

P Ma, T Du, JZ Zhang, K Wu, A Spielberg… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The computational design of soft underwater swimmers is challenging because of the high
degrees of freedom in soft-body modeling. In this paper, we present a differentiable pipeline …

A framework for taxonomy and evaluation of self-reconfigurable robotic systems

N Tan, AA Hayat, MR Elara, KL Wood - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Self-reconfigurable robots have been proposed for a quite long period and in large
numbers. However, there are very few systematic methodologies proposed to categorize …

Skaterbots: Optimization-based design and motion synthesis for robotic creatures with legs and wheels

M Geilinger, R Poranne, R Desai… - ACM Transactions on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
We present a computation-driven approach to design optimization and motion synthesis for
robotic creatures that locomote using arbitrary arrangements of legs and wheels. Through …

Efficient automatic design of robots

D Matthews, A Spielberg, D Rus… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Robots are notoriously difficult to design because of complex interdependencies between
their physical structure, sensory and motor layouts, and behavior. Despite this, almost every …

Tools, Tricks, and Hacks: Exploring Novel Digital Fabrication Workflows on# PlotterTwitter

H Twigg-Smith, JT O'Leary, N Peek - … of the 2021 CHI Conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
As digital fabrication machines become widespread, online communities have provided
space for diverse practitioners to share their work, troubleshoot, and socialize. These …

Reality-assisted evolution of soft robots through large-scale physical experimentation: a review

T Howison, S Hauser, J Hughes, F Iida - Artificial Life, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
We introduce the framework of reality-assisted evolution to summarize a growing trend
towards combining model-based and model-free approaches to improve the design of …

Knitting skeletons: A computer-aided design tool for sha** and patterning of knitted garments

A Kaspar, L Makatura, W Matusik - proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
This work presents a novel interactive system for simple garment composition and surface
patterning. Our approach makes it easier for casual users to customize machine-knitted …

Spotlight on origami robots

D Rus, C Sung - Science Robotics, 2018 - science.org
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