Keywords

origami engineering, deployment mechanisms, nesting, and spacecraft structures

Abstract

The Miura-ori pattern exhibits favorable qualities desirable for deployable space arrays – especially achieving a large deployed area from a compact stowed volume. However, implementing the Miura-ori into a finite-thickness, engineered system poses challenges that are not manifest in a zero-thickness model. As such, it is important to understand and address the limitations of the pattern before implementing it into an engineered system. This paper presents the Miura-ori as a favorable, yet challenging, pattern in design of deployable space arrays. Challenges including thickness-accommodation, nesting, grounding and deployment are presented to introduce designers to unapparent complications associated with design of Miura-ori systems. A preliminary set of approaches to address and mitigate design difficulties is then provided.

Original Publication Citation

Bolanos, D., Ynchausti, C., Brown, N., Pruett, H., Hunter, J., Clark, B., Bateman, T., Howell, L.L., and Magleby, S.P., “Considering Thickness-Accommodation, Nesting, Grounding and Deployment in Design of Miura-ori Based Space Arrays,” Mechanism and Machine Theory, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2022.104904, Vol. 174, 2022.

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

2022

Publisher

Mechanism and Machine Theory

Language

English

College

Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering

Department

Mechanical Engineering

University Standing at Time of Publication

Full Professor

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