Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : November 23, 2018 - November 25, 2018
Origami, the ancient art of folding a flat-piece of flexible material such as paper into a 3D shape, has attracted the attention of the scientific community. Origami design of 2D crease pattern originally is developed for human. However, in order to receive the folding pleasure, some crease patterns even are difficult to fold by hand. One of the most interesting applications of origami is in robots, so origami robot is designed to emancipate human from the hard work, but some of these robots use complex mechanisms to work properly. Here, we try to search for a breakthrough strategy from the point of crease pattern design. Two powerful candidate works are discussed. One is to develop the crease pattern from tree structure; another one is to design crease pattern of approximate object. However, we think that there are still undiscovered, we try to aim the general methods of improving the crease pattern and consider the requirements that should be provided for the robot.
