2017
Pop-up mars rover with textile-enhanced rigid-flex PCB body
Jaakko T. Karras, Christine L. Fuller, Kalind C. Carpenter, Alessandro Buscicchio, Dale McKeeby, Christopher J. Norman +3
ICRA 2017poster
This paper presents a novel manufacturing paradigm for constructing origami-inspired pop-up robots for future space exploration missions. The new approach uses a textile-enhanced rigid-flex printed circuit board (PCB) to implement a folding robot chassis using robust, spaceflight-tolerant materials,…