Alec Orlofsky

2 accepted papers

2020

Mechanically Programmed Miniature Origami Grippers

Alec Orlofsky, Chang Liu, Soroush Kamrava, Ashkan Vaziri, Samuel M. Felton

ICRA 2020poster

This paper presents a robotic gripper design that can perform customizable grasping tasks at the millimeter scale. The design is based on the origami string, a mechanism with a single degree of freedom that can be mechanically programmed to approximate arbitrary paths in space. By using this concept…

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2019

A Self-Folding Pneumatic Piston for Mechanically Robust Origami Robots

Chang Liu, Alec Orlofsky, Christa D. Kitcher, Samuel M. Felton

RA-L 2019

This letter presents a self-folding piston-style actuator for flat-foldable robots. Despite the variety of soft and planar actuators used in origami robots, extensional actuators are uncommon because they must resist buckling and bending loads, while soft and planar machines are inherently flexible.

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