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Awards
Visiting Scholar position at the University of Bristol (2010). He is a member Sam Tawfick
of ASME, AIAA and SPIE professional societies. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Description of the award Abstract
The Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award is given for notable
contribution(s) to the field of Adaptive Structures and Material Systems. Using origami folding to construct and actuate mechanisms and machines
The prize is awarded to a young researcher in his or her ascendancy offers attractive opportunities from small, scalable, and cheap robots to
whose work has already had an impact in his/her field within Adaptive deployable adaptive structures. This paper presents the design of a
Structures and Material Systems. The winner of the award must be within bio-inspired origami crawling robot constructed by folding sheets of
seven years of terminal degree at the time of nomination. paper. The origami building block structure is based on the Kresling
crease pattern (CP), a chiral tower with a polygonal base, which expands
ASME ASMS TC 2018 BEST PAPER AWARDS and contracts through coupled longitudinal and rotational motion similar to
a screw. We design the origami to have multi-stable structural equilibria
There are three best-paper awards established by the ASME Adaptive which can be tuned by changing the folding CP. Kinematic analysis of
Structures and Materials Systems Technical Committee (ASMS TC): 1) these structures based on rigid-plates and hinges at fold lines precludes
Structural Dynamics and Control Best Paper Award, 2) Materials and the shape transformation associated with the bistability of the physical
Systems Best Paper Award, and 3) Energy Harvesting Best Paper Award. models. To capture the kinematics of the bi-stable origami, the panels’
Papers published in journal publications relevant to smart materials and deformation behavior is modeled utilizing principles of virtual folds. Virtual
structures and conference proceedings sponsored by the ASMS folds approximate material bending by hinged, rigid panels, which
committee are eligible for the best-paper competition. Nominated papers facilitates the development of a kinematic solution via rigid-plate rotation
are sent out for review. The winners of this year’s awards are listed below. analysis. As such, the kinetics and stability of folded structures are
investigated by assigning suitable torsional spring constants to the fold
2018 BEST PAPER IN STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS AND CONTROL lines. The results presented demonstrate the effect of fold-pattern
A. Pagano, T. Yan, B. Chien, A. Wissa and S. Tawfick, “A Crawling Robot geometries on the snapping behavior of the bi-stable origami structure
Driven by Multi-Stable Origami,” Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 26, based on the Kresling pattern. The crawling robot is presented as a case
No. 9, 094007, 2017. study for the use of this origami structure to mimic crawling locomotion.
The robot is comprised of two origami towers nested inside a paper
Alexander Pagano bellow, and connected by 3D printed end plates. DC motors are used to
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign actuate the expansion and contraction of the internal origami structures to
achieve forward locomotion and steering. Beyond locomotion, this simple
Tongxi Yan design can find applications in manipulators, booms, and active structures.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Biographies
Brian Chien
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Alexander Pagano is currently a graduate student in Mechanical Science
and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His
Aimy Wissa research interests lie at the intersection of bioinspired design, materials
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and manufacturing. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Materials
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Tongxi Yan is currently a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering at
MIT. His interests are in bioinspired robots. He obtained his Bachelor’s
degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he was a
research assistant in the Kinetic Materials Research Group led by
Professor Tawfick.
Brian Chien obtained his Masters of Engineering in Mechanical
Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he
was an undergraduate research assistant in the Bioinspired Adaptive
Morphologies Laboratory led by Professor Wissa.
Aimy Wissa is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Science and
Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
