1ドルロボットに向けた電気機械システムの統合設計・製作戦略
Towards One-Dollar Robots: An Integrated Design and Fabrication Strategy for Electromechanical Systems
折り紙の切り折りとEテキスタイル技術を用い、単層シートと導電性縫い糸だけで約0.4ドルの電気機械発振器を製作し、安価なロボット制御への応用可能性を示した。
著者: Wenzhong Yan, Ankur Mehta
分類: cs.RO, physics.app-ph
原文アブストラクト
To improve the accessibility of robotics, we propose a design and fabrication strategy to build low-cost electromechanical systems for robotic devices. Our method, based on origami-inspired cut-and-fold and E-textiles techniques, aims at minimizing the resources for robot creation. Specifically, we explore techniques to create robots with the resources restricted to single-layer sheets (e.g. polyester film) and conductive sewing threads. To demonstrate our strategy's feasibility, these techniques are successfully integrated into an electromechanical oscillator (about 0.40 USD), which can generate electrical oscillation under constant-current power and potentially be used as a simple robot controller in lieu of additional external electronics.
