The demand for large antennas in future space missions has increasingly stimulated the
development of deployable membrane antenna structures owing to their light weight and …

Rigid origami provides great theoretical potentials for designing metamaterials with
programmable mechanical properties. In this paper, a novel family of cellular mechanical …

This paper proposes a geometric method via isosceles trapezoids or isosceles trapezoidal
prisms (ITP) to approximate a smooth planar curve or a cylinder. The method is then …

In this study, the networking method of Bennett linkages is investigated, and a deployable
parabolic cylindrical antenna is constructed based on the network. The alternative form of …

This paper presents a one-degree-of-freedom network of Bennett linkages which can be
deployed to approximate a cylindrical surface. The geometry of the unit mechanism is …

Deployable mechanisms with solid surfaces, which possess the advantage of high accuracy,
have great potential in engineering applications. This paper proposes a design method to …

Accuracy of the fitted surface is of great importance to the performance of deployable
antennas utilized in space. This paper proposes a stiffness analysis based fitting accuracy …

This paper deals with the construction of a novel family of reconfigurable deployable Bricard-
like mechanisms with angulated elements (AEs). The reconfigurable dual AEs unit is …

Reconfigurable mechanisms can deliberately reconfigure themselves by rearranging the
connectivity of components to meet the different requirements of tasks. Metamorphic and …

This study proposes a conceptual configuration synthesis method based on graph theory to
obtain a series of quadrangular prismatic deployable units (QPDUs) which can be folded …