Paper Info
Title
Origami Robots with Flexible Printed Circuit Sheets.
Abstract
Aiming at the development of functional sheets, this research proposes a new fabrication method of origami robots to create an electronic circuit which can transform into a three-dimensional (3D) shape and move by itself by combining origami geometry and a flexible printed circuit board. Inspired by the caterpillar movement, we develop a crawling robot to demonstrate this approach. The body of the robot is made of a P-Flex™ sheet and actuated by shape memory alloy (SMA). The robot uses the contraction force generated from the SMA and the elasticity of sheet itself in order to produce periodic changes in shape. Since these fold lines maintain elasticity, this robot can also be returned to a flat state for storage. Materials we use are commercially available and cheap enough to achieve mass-production. Besides, this design method provides an easy way to fabricate a variety of new functional origami robots and mechanisms by designing more complex origami patterns and built-in circuits.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3267305.3267620
UbiComp '18: The 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Singapore Singapore October, 2018
Keywords
Field
DocType
Origami robot, Flexible printed circuit board, Soft robot
SMA*,Crawling,Computer science,Mechanical engineering,Flexible electronics,Human–computer interaction,Shape-memory alloy,Electronic circuit,Robot
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5966-5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dongchi Lee100.34
Kazuya Saito200.34
Takuya Umedachi37615.88
Tung Ta4115.76
Yoshihiro Kawahara537373.04