Print Email Facebook Twitter Actuation of an origami inspired curved-crease gripper with a planar bending actuator Title Actuation of an origami inspired curved-crease gripper with a planar bending actuator Author van Elteren, Floris (TU Delft Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) Contributor Herder, Just (mentor) Radaelli, Giuseppe (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Date 2018-03-28 Abstract A particular design choice in origami engineering is to use curved creases. By folding a curved-crease design, the sheets connected to the crease line have to bend, allowing for novel properties unachievable with straight-crease origami. This thesis explores the design of curved-crease-folding mechanisms with integrated planar bending actuators. The ability of bending actuators to transmit forces across crease lines is investigated. The influence of the shape of the crease line on the output force is studied on a simple curved-crease gripper. From our analysis we conclude that curved creases perform better, provided that the crease pattern or the surface material ensures that the moving of generators along the surface is minimized. Other curved-crease and actuation concepts are also explored. Subject origamimechanismgripperShape memory Alloycurved-creasecompliant To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c35fa280-cb74-4327-8376-7fa1ca8376f8 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2018 Floris van Elteren Files PDF ThesisReport_FvanElteren.pdf 97.04 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:c35fa280-cb74-4327-8376-7fa1ca8376f8/datastream/OBJ/view