ArticleScientific reports2017
Programmable Deployment of Tensegrity Structures by Stimulus-Responsive Polymers.
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- Recent Progress in Active Mechanical Metamaterials and Construction Principles.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022Review
- Cytoskeletal Tensegrity in Microgravity.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Untethered control of functional origami microrobots with distributed actuation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Geometrically reconfigurable 3D mesostructures and electromagnetic devices through a rational bottom-up design strategy.Science advances · 2020Article
- Enumeration-screening method for the design of simple polygonal tensegrities.Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2019Article
- Bifurcation-based embodied logic and autonomous actuation.Nature communications · 2019Article
- Smart Metamaterial Based on the Simplex Tensegrity Pattern.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Soft Robots Manufacturing: A Review.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2018Review
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Abstract
Tensegrity structures with detached struts are naturally suitable for deployable applications, both in terrestrial and outer-space structures, as well as morphing devices. Composed of discontinuous struts and continuous cables, such systems are only structurally stable when self-stress is induced; otherwise, they lose the original geometrical configuration (while keeping the topology) and thus can be tightly packed. We exploit this feature by using stimulus responsive polymers to introduce a paradigm for creating actively deployable 3D structures with complex shapes. The shape-change of 3D printed smart materials adds an active dimension to the configurational space of some structural components. Then we achieve dramatic global volume expansion by amplifying component-wise deformations to global configurational change via the inherent deployability of tensegrity. Through modular design, we can generate active tensegrities that are relatively stiff yet resilient with various complexities. Such unique properties enable structural systems that can achieve gigantic shape change, making them ideal as a platform for super light-weight structures, shape-changing soft robots, morphing antenna and RF devices, and biomedical devices.
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