Orig-In | Origami Prototyping
People's Choice Nominee
Orig-In | Origami Prototyping received a People's Choice Nomination.
Design and model (virtually, with paper or 3D printed) the packaging of key mission components for size constrained spacecraft to minimize stowed volume, but maximize capabilities.
Orig-In: an app to help you create the Origami design you want
The state of the art of Origami’s usage revealed us that few of many existing Folds Patterns are currently used in space engineering. Moreover, a discussion with a satellite designer has allowed us to perceive the need of physical demonstrators to test and show concepts to collaborators and possibly investors.
Origami's main advantage is that you can easily obtain a conceptual prototype from only a conventional printer and a piece of paper. However, you need to find the right pattern with the right dimensions that suits your needs, and also have to learn how to fold it watching tutorials over the web.
The goal of Miura Spirit Application is to propose an All-In-One and Simple solution for engineers, architects, artists, designers … willing to quickly test an idea, and have a physical object to show to others.
When launching the application, the user has to select which type of final form he desires:
- Foldable Large Areas, deployed either in a translational or a rotational movement,
- Foldable Tubes, that extend themselves in a spiral motion,
- Foldable Tessellated Hemispheres, and so on
Next, the user inputs size constraints for the prototype (Folded & Extended Dimensions), Material, Weight, Thickness of Material Sheets, General Geometry as well as other parameters depending of the selected pattern.
From there, computations are executed in order to find the right pattern that suits at most what you want. Such algorithms are not yet developed, but research is planned on existing software (cf Zhonghua Xi and Tomohiro Tachi respective research) to analyze behavior and design laws.
Once that is completed, the user can export the pattern to any scale, the application rendering a PDF or image file for him to print and fold. A video tutorial is directly accessible within the application, to help the user folding it in its final form.
Formatted SVG & DXF files could be exported as well to be used in conjunction with Laser-Cutting Systems in order to pre-crease the pattern.
Applications :
- Study of deployable solar panels suited for Cubesat Pico-Satellites (using Flasher Design),
- Feasibility of Deployable Booms (using Nejiri-Ori Design),
- Architectural Shelters & Foldable Tents (using Yoshimura Design),
- Artistic & Design Projects
PDF Presentation of the Project
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2PfhN_5XJi7QmE1O...
General Videos
“Can origami advance space exploration?” TEDx conference by Shannon Zirbel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0x0r7aPI2M
Compliant Mechanisms & Origami Applications into Space Engineering & Design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXZujFsKtGY
Software inspiration
Software developed by Zhonghua Xi at George Mason University Motion and Shape Computing Group
http://masc.cs.gmu.edu/wiki/OrigamiSoftware
Origami Folding Softwares (Pattern Generation and Modification)
"Freeform Origami","Origamizer", "Rigid Origami Simulator", by Tomohiro Tachi
Current space applications & Prototypes
Japan Space Institute ISAS testing Miura-Ori pattern for solar panels deployment
www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/enterp/tech/st/07.shtml
Prototype from NASA using Hexagonal Flasher folding technic, in collaboration with Robert Lang
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-277
Eyeglass Telescope – A prototype from Robert Lang
http://www.langorigami.com/article/eyeglass-telescope
TALC Space Telescope, from CEA French organization
http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucapgsa/Test_docs/TALC_Appel_a_idees_CNES.pdf
http://spie.org/Publications/Proceedings/Paper/10.1117/12.2055895
Architectural Application
Cardborigami, Deployable Cardboard structure for Homeless People
http://archinect.com/news/article/78386180/cardborigami-designed-to-help-the-homeless
Personal Experimentations
Folding of Miura-Ori, Magic Ball, Yoshimura, Nejiri-Ori, Simple Flasher (square based), and NASA’s Hexagonal Flasher during the challenge (using A4 paper 80gsm)
Paper & cardboard Laser Cutting to test curved folds (Pattern created using Inkscape)
Photographs of Origamis Folded during the Challenge
