Session
2024 Session 1
Location
Salt Lake Community College Westpointe Campus, Salt Lake City, UT
Start Date
5-6-2024 9:20 AM
Description
Although origami-inspired mechanisms are becoming more common in engineering, transitioning from a paper-based origami pattern to a deployable array requires many design decisions, including selecting a thickness accommodation technique, hinges/surrogate folds, deployment method, stability measures, damping process, etc. This work focuses on demonstrating deployment and stabilization techniques applied to Miura-Ori configurations, with the primary objective of achieving a self-deploying and self-stabilizing array that could be utilized as a reflectarray antenna or other deployable system for satellites. These arrays must be compact when stowed, yet deploy expansively, with minimal to no aid. Specifically, this work describes deployment techniques that can be incorporated into volume-efficient designs to help arrays deploy, with the additional benefit of ease in manufacturing. Force data is collected by deploying low-fidelity prototypes, and the methods that perform better than the rest are combined and incorporated into a high-fidelity prototype to achieve the goals listed above, for further analysis and demonstration.
Demonstration of Self-Deploying and Self-Stabilizing Behaviors in Origami-Inspired Arrays
Salt Lake Community College Westpointe Campus, Salt Lake City, UT
Although origami-inspired mechanisms are becoming more common in engineering, transitioning from a paper-based origami pattern to a deployable array requires many design decisions, including selecting a thickness accommodation technique, hinges/surrogate folds, deployment method, stability measures, damping process, etc. This work focuses on demonstrating deployment and stabilization techniques applied to Miura-Ori configurations, with the primary objective of achieving a self-deploying and self-stabilizing array that could be utilized as a reflectarray antenna or other deployable system for satellites. These arrays must be compact when stowed, yet deploy expansively, with minimal to no aid. Specifically, this work describes deployment techniques that can be incorporated into volume-efficient designs to help arrays deploy, with the additional benefit of ease in manufacturing. Force data is collected by deploying low-fidelity prototypes, and the methods that perform better than the rest are combined and incorporated into a high-fidelity prototype to achieve the goals listed above, for further analysis and demonstration.