Robotic Origami Folding - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Robotic Origami Folding

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-04-43, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2004

Abstract

Origami, the human art of paper sculpture, is a fresh challenge for the field of robotic manipulation, and provides a concrete example for many difficult and gen- eral manipulation problems. This thesis will present some initial results, including the world's first origami-folding robot, some new theorems about foldability, defi- nition of a simple class of origami for which I have designed a complete automatic planner, analysis of the kinematics of more complicated folds, and some observa- tions about the configuration spaces of compound spherical closed chains.

BibTeX

@phdthesis{Balkcom-2004-8994,
author = {Devin Balkcom},
title = {Robotic Origami Folding},
year = {2004},
month = {August},
school = {Carnegie Mellon University},
address = {Pittsburgh, PA},
number = {CMU-RI-TR-04-43},
}