Shuhei Miyashita, Isabella DiDio, Ishwarya Ananthabhotla, Byoungkwon (Kwon) An, Cynthia Sung, Slava Arabagi, Daniela Rus
Shuhei Miyashita, Isabella DiDio, Ishwarya Ananthabhotla, Byoungkwon (Kwon) An, Cynthia Sung, Slava Arabagi, Daniela Rus
ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics
2015
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 self-folding 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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