One-DOF Rigid Foldable Structures from Space Curves

Tomohiro Tachi received his doctoral degree in engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan. His research interests include origami, deployable structures, computational design, and digital fabrication.

We show a novel design method of one-DOF deployable mechanism based on a space curve, through creating a curved folding and discretizing the folding into rigid origami. By interpreting constant angle curved folding as a flat-foldable quadrilateral mesh origami, we design novel irregular tessellated, cylindrical, and cellular flatly collapsible structures, whose behavior is easily controlled by space curves.