Abstract
The steady rise of deployable structures and mechanisms based on kirigami and origami principles has brought about design innovations that yield flexible and lightweight robots. These robots are designed based on desirable locomotion mechanisms and often incorporate additional materials to support their flexible structure to enable load-bearing applications and considerable efficient movement. One tetherless way to actuate these robots is via the use of magnets. This paper incorporates magnetic actuation and kirigami structures based on the lamina emergent mechanism (LEM). Three designs of magnetic-actuated LEMs (triangular prism, single LEM (SLEM), alternating mirror dual LEM (AMDLEM)) are proposed, and small permanent magnets are attached to the structures’ flaps or legs that rotate in response to an Actuating Permanent Magnet (APM) to yield stick-slip locomotion, enabling the robots to waddle and crawl on a frictional surface. For preliminary characterization, we actuate the three designs at a frequency of 0.6 Hz. We observed the triangular prism, SLEM, and AMDLEM prototypes to achieve horizontal speeds of 4.3 mm/s, 10.7 mm/s, and 12.5 mm/s on flat surfaces, respectively. We further explore how changing different parameters (actuation frequency, friction, leg length, stiffness, compressibility) affects the locomotion of the different mechanisms.
Subject
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Computer Science Applications,Process Chemistry and Technology,General Engineering,Instrumentation,General Materials Science
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