EFRI-ODISSEI: Uniting Principles of Folding and Compliant Mechanisms to Create Engineering Systems with Unprecedented Performance

这项新兴前沿研究与创新（EFRI）折纸设计工程创新（ODISSEI）奖的研究目标是将折纸原理与顺应机制相结合，以创造具有前所未有性能的工程系统。顺应机制原则将提供一种手段，将基于折纸的发现转化为实现所需行为的工程系统。该目标将通过以下方法实现：1）克服限制折纸原理广泛应用于非纸材料的障碍，2）创建将折纸原理与顺应机制原理相结合的设计方法，3）采用统一的原理创建具有前所未有的性能的工程系统，以及4）展示折纸艺术与工程进步的关系。可供选择的项目包括一个模仿折纸折痕的替代折叠库，用于创建基于折纸的顺应机制的设计方法和数学建模方法，促进国家目标的工程系统，学生教育，扩大参与结果，以及伴随推广活动的巡回博物馆展览。研究的成功将使高度紧凑的机构（例如，医疗植入物、电子设备和航空航天部件），在运输过程中紧凑并在操作位置展开的可折叠装置（例如，手术装置、空间机构和搜救系统），以及制造工艺有限的应用（例如，微机电系统和成本敏感型应用）。这项研究的商业化将证明其具有产生真实的重大经济影响的潜力。工程，数学和工业设计的学生将密切参与研究的各个方面。将在全国范围内举办一个折纸艺术展览及其对工程和数学的延伸。

The research objective of this Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) Origami Design for the Integration of Self-assembling Systems for Engineering Innovation (ODISSEI) award is to unite principles of origami and compliant mechanisms to enable the creation of engineered systems with unprecedented performance. Compliant mechanism principles will provide a means to translate origami-based discoveries into engineered systems that achieve desired behaviors. The objective will be accomplished using the following approach: 1) overcome obstacles limiting origami principles from being widely applied to non-paper materials, 2) create design methods that unite origami and compliant mechanism principles, 3) employ the united principles to create engineered systems with unprecedented performance, and 4) exhibit the relationship of origami art to engineering advances. Deliverables include a library of surrogate folds that mimic origami creases, design methods and mathematical modeling approaches for creating origami-based compliant mechanisms, engineered systems that further national goals, student education, broadening participation results, and a traveling museum exhibit with accompanying outreach activities. Research success will enable advances in applications such as highly compact mechanisms (e.g., medical implants, electronics equipment, and aerospace components), collapsible devices that are compact during transport and deployed at the location of operation (e.g., surgical devices, space mechanisms, and search and rescue systems), and applications with limited manufacturing processes available (e.g., microelectromechanical systems and cost-sensitive applications). Commercialization of the research will demonstrate its potential for real and significant economic impact. Engineering, mathematics, and industrial design students will be intimately involved in all aspects of the research. An exhibit of origami art and its extension to engineering and mathematics will be developed for display nationally.