Abstract: This paper presents a novel metamorphic 8R linkage extracted from a kirigamifold with pregrooved creases and two overconstrained 6R linkages evolved from the 8R linkage by taking the concept of metamorphosis in the sense ...

Abstract: This paper presents the Bennett planospherical hybrid linkage and proposes a novel metamorphic parallel mechanism consisting of this planospherical linkage as part of limbs. In light of geometrical modeling of the Bennett ...

Abstract: This paper provides an approach to model the reaction force of origami mechanisms when they are deformed. In this approach, an origami structure is taken as an equivalent redundantly actuated mechanism, making it possible ...

Abstract: This paper presents a novel design of extensible continuum robots in light of origamiinspired folding techniques. The design starts from a modularized crease pattern, which consists of two triangular bases and three waterbomb ...

Abstract: The wormlike robots are capable of imitating amazing locomotion of slim creatures. This paper presents a novel centimeterscale worm robot inspired by a kirigami parallel structure with helical motion. The motion characteristics ...

Abstract: This paper presents a unique feature of geometric constraint of adjacent axes of the variableaxis (vA) joint and analyses the effectiveness in the constructed limb, resulting in variation of mobility configuration of two ...

Abstract: Drawing inspiration from kirigami, this article first presents the crease pattern of a kirigami model which is kinematically equivalent to a Bennett plano-spherical linkage. In terms of the screw theory, distinct closed-loop ...