Inspired by artistic origami, researchers in engineering have explored the principles of
origami folding to design novel foldable mechanisms, origami robots and metamaterials …

This paper is about the construction and reconfiguration analysis of a novel variable-DOF (or
kinematotropic) single-loop 7R spatial mechanism, which is composed of seven R (revolute) …

This paper deals with the structure synthesis and reconfiguration analysis of variable-DOF
(variable-degree-of-freedom) single-loop mechanisms with prismatic joints based on a …

In this paper, a novel cable-constrained parallel mechanism is presented as a lightweight,
low-cost leg mechanism design for walking machines to be used on flat surfaces. The …

As focal length significantly affects the performance of a telescope, the performance of
spatial telescopes in astrophysical missions is mainly limited by the launchers' capabilities …

The space deployable mast has been successfully applied to space equipment such as
solar sails and space telescopes. At present, the deployable units of the space deployable …

This paper systematically investigates a soft-rigid hybrid pneumatic actuator (SRHPA), which
consists of a rigid-foldable twisting skeleton capable of a large range of helical motion and a …

We use the recently introduced factorization of motion polynomials for constructing
overconstrained spatial linkages with a straight-line trajectory. Unlike previous examples of …

Torsional actuators are a class of artificial muscle technology that generates torque and
produces rotary motion in response to various stimuli. This paper presents a novel torsional …

The reconfigurable mechanism has distinct capability of changing its motion characteristics
such as motility and motion branches without structure reassembling and reconstruction …