Folding Angle Regulation by Curved Crease Design for Self-Assembling Origami Propellers

Folding Angle Regulation by Curved Crease Design for Self-Assembling Origami Propellers

© 2015 by ASME. This paper describes a method for manufacturing complex three-dimensional curved structures by self-folding layered materials. Our main focus is to first show that the material can cope with curved crease self-folding and then to utilize the curvature to predict the folding angles. T...

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Main Authors: Miyashita, Shuhei (Author), DiDio, Isabella (Author), Ananthabhotla, Ishwarya (Author), An, Byoungkwon (Author), Sung, Cynthia (Author), Arabagi, Slava (Author), Rus, Daniela (Author)
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Language:English
Published: ASME International, 2021-10-27T20:04:10Z.
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Summary:© 2015 by ASME. This paper describes a method for manufacturing complex three-dimensional curved structures by self-folding layered materials. Our main focus is to first show that the material can cope with curved crease self-folding and then to utilize the curvature to predict the folding angles. The self-folding process employs uniform heat to induce selffolding of the material and shows the successful generation of several types of propellers as a proof of concept. We further show the resulting device is functional by demonstrating its levitation in the presence of a magnetic field applied remotely.

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