Origami-Inspired Snap-through Bistability in Parallel and Curved Mechanisms Through the Inflection of Degree Four Vertexes
Bok Seng Yeow Catherine Jiayi Cai Manivannan Sivaperuman Kalairaj Feng Wen Hoo Zu Xuan Lee Janice Chui Shien Tan Jian Rong Ho Vienna Minhui Ma Hui Huang Hongliang Ren Bok Seng Yeow Catherine Jiayi Cai Manivannan Sivaperuman Kalairaj Feng Wen Hoo Zu Xuan Lee Janice Chui Shien Tan Jian Rong Ho Vienna Minhui Ma Hui Huang Hongliang Ren
Origami, the art of folding paper, can impart useful design inspirations to the creation of mechanical structures and mechanisms. Bistability is a useful property for origami designs, which can help compartmentalize different actuations and stiffness tuning regimes. Given the benefits of bistability, we investigated origami designs used to build robots and deployable structures. We show snap-throu...