2019
A Self-Folding Pneumatic Piston for Mechanically Robust Origami Robots
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.