MAE Department - PG seminar - Origami-based Mechanical Metamaterials across from Macroscale to Microscale for Robotics and the Metaverse

Origami, the art of paper folding, is being transformed by scientists, mathematicians, and engineers into innovative design approaches to harness its unique properties, i.e., crease-dependent and tunable, and almost size-independent properties. Inspired by this property, this talk will be started by presenting the stability of origami structures for on-demand deployability and compressibility through designed loading and unloading passes, its applications in robotics, followed by curved origami patterns to enable in-situ stiffness manipulation covering negative, zero, and positive stiffness, and origami-enabled mechanical haptics with application in the metaverse. Though the applications are mainly in macroscale, their potentials in microscale are also discussed in this talk. These studies open ways to design origami-based mechanical metamaterials with variable applications in different length scales.