Abstract: Selffolding origami has the potential to be utilized in novel areas such as selfassembling robots and shapemorphing structures. Important decisions in the development of such applications include the choice of active ...

Abstract: Of special interest in the growing field of origami engineering is selffolding, wherein a material is able to fold itself in response to an applied field. In order to simulate the effect of active materials on an origamiinspired ...

Abstract: Action origami is a field of origami dealing with models that are folded so that in their final, deployed state they exhibit motion. Hundreds of action origami models exist, many of which use complicated kinematics to ...

Abstract: A concept recently proposed by the authors is that of a multifield sheet that folds into several distinct shapes based on the applied field, be it magnetic, electric, or thermal. In this paper, the design, fabrication, and ...

Abstract: Mechanical advantage is traditionally defined for single-input and single-output rigid-body mechanisms. A generalized approach for identifying single-output mechanical advantage for a multiple-input compliant mechanism, ...