Deployable polyhedral mechanisms (DPMs) have witnessed flourishing growth in recent
years because of their potential applications in robotics, space exploration, structure …

Abstract Space deployable structures are widely used in aerospace engineering, which
have been addressed new folding methods, such as spatial overconstrained linkages and …

Deployable structures are mobile assemblies which do not aim motion but to attain different
configurations depending on the service requirements. These structures are widely used in …

Thick-panel origami and mobile assembly of spatial linkages are of superiorly foldable
properties and therefore have great potential for engineering applications, such as solar …

This paper deals with constructing mobile assemblies of Bennett linkages inspired by four-
crease origami patterns. A transition technique has been proposed by taking the thick-panel …

This paper, for the first time, presents an overconstrained spatial eight-bar linkage and its
application to the synthesis of a group of Fulleroid-like deployable platonic mechanisms …

The Bennett linkage has been proposed as a building block of deployable structures as it
can generate desirable spatial motions with the least number of links. However, these …

Polyhedral transformation enables large volumetric change amongst Platonic and
Archimedean solids. It has great potential in applications where transportability and …

A novel family of deployable mechanisms (DMs) is presented. Unlike most such devices,
which have one degree-of-freedom (DOF), the proposed DM can be deployed and …

Polyhedrons have great potentials in various engineering fields due to their superior
capability of folding in 3D to achieve a large volumetric ratio of packaging. However, their …