A Design and Fabrication Approach for Pneumatic Soft Robotic Arms Using 3D Printed Origami Skeletons
This paper talks about the conversion of artistic origami like square spring and quadrilateral tube folding to a skeleton design that is 3D printed and used as the exoskeleton for a soft robotic arm.
K. Zhang, Y. Zhu, C. Lou, P. Zheng and M. Kovač, “A Design and Fabrication Approach for Pneumatic Soft Robotic Arms Using 3D Printed Origami Skeletons,” 2019 2nd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 2019, pp. 821-827, doi: 10.1109/ROBOSOFT.2019.8722719.
Robogami: A Fully Integrated Low-Profile Robotic Origami
This paper discusses how they developed Robogami as a origami robot which is low cost and repeatable. I choose this paper as the root because it was the few that blended origami with robotics.
Firouzeh, A., and Paik, J. (May 1, 2015). “Robogami: A Fully Integrated Low-Profile Robotic Origami.” ASME. J. Mechanisms Robotics. May 2015; 7(2): 021009. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4029491
Robot self-assembly by folding: A printed inchworm robot
It was interesting to see different sources talk and are influenced by origami. In this paper, they talk about the template that they created to ensure the folds in this robot but was influenced by origami. They addressed how printing and folding are fast and inexpensive methods to prototype complex machines.
S. M. Felton, M. T. Tolley, C. D. Onal, D. Rus and R. J. Wood, “Robot self-assembly by folding: A printed inchworm robot,” 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013, pp. 277-282, doi: 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630588.
Towards printable robotics: Origami-inspired planar fabrication of three-dimensional mechanisms
This paper educated about how origami is suitable for printable robotics as it uses a flat sheet as for building functional shapes for the robot’s body. This paper took more inspiration from the origami patterns compared to the first paper which only looked at the geometric manipulation paper folding in origami can do.
C. D. Onal, R. J. Wood and D. Rus, “Towards printable robotics: Origami-inspired planar fabrication of three-dimensional mechanisms,” 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011, pp. 4608-4613, doi: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980139.