Abstract: We present a design technique for generating rigidly foldable quadrilateral meshes (RFQMs), taking as input four arrays of direction angles and fold angles for horizontal and vertical folds. By starting with angles, rather ...

Abstract: We present the design for a family of deployable structures based on the origami flasher, which are rigidly foldable, i.e., foldable with revolute joints at the creases and planar rigid faces. By appropriate choice of ...

Abstract: We present a general technique for achieving kinematic single degree of freedom (1DOF) origami-based mechanisms with thick rigid panels using synchronized offset rolling contact elements (SORCEs). We present general design ...

Abstract: We present new families of thick origami mechanisms that achieve rigid foldability and parallel stacking of panels in the flat-folded state using linkages for some or all of the hinges between panels. A degree-four vertex ...

Abstract: Abstract. We develop and demonstrate two families of deployable mechanisms, the Yoshimura-Miura-ori and the Waterbomb-Miura-ori, that stow into an efficiently packed cube (or other rectangular parallelopiped), deploy into ...

Abstract: The origami waterbomb base (WB) is a singlevertex bistable mechanism that can be generalized to accommodate various geometric, kinematic, and kinetic needs. The traditional WB consists of a square sheet that has four ...

Abstract: A method is presented utilizing networks of lamina emergent joints, known as lamina emergent arrays, to accommodate largecurvature developable structures suited to deployable applications. By exploiting the ruling lines ...

Abstract: Over the past few decades, the centuriesold art of origami and the centuriesold practice of engineering have been mixing in ways that have proven to be both fruitful and surprising, resulting in structures and mechanisms ...

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: Of the many valid configurations that a curved fold may assume, it is of particular interest to identify natural—or lowest energy—configurations that physical models will preferentially assume. We present normalized ...