Folding And Unfolding Origami Tessellation By Reusing Folding Path
Department of Computer ScienceGeorge Mason University4400 University Drive MS#4A5Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 USAhttp://cs.gmu.edu/ 703-993-1530Technical ReportsFolding and Unfolding Origami Tessellation by ReusingFolding PathZhonghua Xizxi@gmu.eduJyh-Ming Lienjmlien@cs.gmu.eduTechnical Report GMU-CS-TR-2015-2AbstractRecent advances in robotics engineering have enabledthe realization of self-folding machines. Rigid origamiis usually used as the underlying model for the selffolding machines whose surface remains rigid duringfolding except at joints. A key issue in designing rigidorigami is foldability that concerns about finding folding steps from a flat sheet of crease pattern to a desiredfolded state. Although recent computational methodsallow rapid simulation of folding process of certain rigidorigamis, these methods can fail even when the inputcrease pattern is extremely simple. In this paper, wetake on the challenge of planning folding and unfoldingmotion of origami tessellations, which are composed ofrepetitive crease patterns. The number of crease linesof a tessellation is usually large, thus searching in suchhigh dimensional configuration space with the requirement of maintaining origami rigidity is nontrivial. Wepropose a motion planner that takes symmetry into consideration and reuses folding path found on the essentialcrease pattern. Both of these strategies enable us to foldlarge origami tessellation much more efficiently than theexisting methods. Our experimental results show thatthe proposed method successfully folds several types ofrigid origami tessellations that the existing methods failto fold.1Figure 1: Folding process of a 11 11 Miura crease pattern (DOF 220) produced by the motion planner proposed in this paper.will take the form of self-folding machines and providemuch broader applications, such as in minimally invasive surgery, where there is a need for very small devicesthat can be deployed inside the body to manipulate tissue [3]. Examples that illustrate the ability of transforming rigid origami from a shape to another can be foundin Fig. 1 and Fig. 7, where a large flat sheet can be foldedinto a compact stick or to a tube.A key issue in designing rigid origami is foldability thatdetermines if one can fold a given origami form one stateto another. Researchers in computational origami haveattempted to simulate or plan the folding motion [4, 5,6, 7, 8]. These existing methods, however, are knownto be restricted. For example, the work by Miyazaki etal. [6] only allows bending, folding-up, and tuckingin motions. Balkcom’s method [9] cannot guaranteethe correct mountain-valley assignment for each crease.The well-known Rigid Origami Simulator by Tachi [8]may sometimes produce motion with self-intersectionand can be trapped in a local minimum. One of themain difficulties of planning origami folding motioncomes from its highly constrained folding motion in highdimensional configuration space. For example, there are100 closed-chain constraints in the 11 11 Miura origamishown in Fig. 1. These constraints make most (if notall) existing motion planners impractical, especially forfolding large origami tessellations.IntroductionRigid origami has been a fundamental model in manyself-folding machines [1] that are usually composed ofmechanical linkage of flat rigid sheets joined by hinges,such as the micro-thick folding actuators [2]. In thepast, people have enjoyed many practical uses of rigidorigami, ranging from folding maps and airbags to packing large solar panel arrays for space satellites and folding space telescope. In the near future, rigid origamiMoreover, it is known to the community that given a1
crease pattern and a rigid goal configuration, the existence of continuous rigid folding motion is not guaranteedin general [10]. Unfortunately, there is no known criteriafor determining whether a crease pattern or its tessellation can be folded between two rigid configurationswithout violating the rigidity constraint. In practice,when a crease pattern is designed, it usually requires itsdesigner to create a physical copy to verify that a rigidfolding motion does exist to bring the crease pattern to arigid goal configuration. This process can often be costlyand time consuming.in which all configurations lie in the set of constraintsatisfying subspaces and using a local planner, they cansignificantly reduce the computation time for finding apath.Planning and simulating origami motion. Miyazaki etal. [6] simulated origami folding by a sequence of simplefolding steps, including bending, tucking in, and foldingup in 1996. It is easy to reconstruct an animation from asheet of paper to the final model. However, the simplicity of folding steps limits the types of origami modelsthat could be represented in the system. Consequently,this method is not suitable for many complex origamimodels whose folding process cannot be represented assimple folding steps such as the Miura pattern shown inFig. 5(a). Song et al. [17] presented a PRM based framework for studying folding motion. However, their kinematic representation of origami is a tree-structure modelwhose folding angle of each crease line is independentof other crease lines. Although a tree-structure modelgreatly simplifies the folding map that can be easily defined along the path from base to each face, this modelis not applicable to represent the majority of origamis,such as the one shown in Fig. 5(a), due to their closureconstraints. Balkcom [9] proposed a simulation methodbased on the ideas of virtual cutting and combinationof forward and inverse kinematics using a rigid origamimodel. Although this approach is computational efficient, the correctness of mountain-valley assignment foreach crease is not guaranteed, i.e., a mountain fold canbecome a valley fold or vice versa. Tachi [8] proposed aninteractive simulator for rigid origami model (known asRigid Origami Simulator (ROS)) which generates foldingmotion of origami by calculating the trajectory by projection to the constrained space based on rigid origamimodel, global self-intersection avoidance and stackingorder problems are not considered in his work. An etal. [2] proposed a new type of self-reconfiguration system called self-folding sheet. They first construct the corresponding folded state for a given crease pattern andangle assignment then continuously unfold the paperusing local repulsive energies (via a modification of ROS[8]). By reversing the unfolding sequence, they obtainedthe path starting from a flat sheet and ending with the desired folded state. Akitaya et al. [18] proposed a methodfor generating folding sequences of origami, however,their system can only handle flat-foldable origami. Morerecently, Xi and Lien [19] proposed a randomized searchalgorithm via nonlinear optimization to find the intermediate folding steps which guarantees self-intersectionfree, however, the motion it found can lead to arbitrarydeformation.This paper models rigid origami as a kinematic systemwith closure constraints. Our ideas for addressing both ofthese rigid foldability issues include: adaptive randomizedsearch and folding path reuse. Specifically, we propose adeformation bounded folding planner (in Section 4) thatcan ensure the rigidity of the origami during continuousfolding motions; such planning has not been achievedbefore in the community. Given a tessellation formedwith repetitive crease patterns, we further take advantage of its symmetry to reduce the degrees of freedom(DOF). Our experimental results show strong evidencesthat this strategy can significantly speed up the computation (in Section 5). We further propose the ideaof essential crease pattern in Section 5.2. Fig. 1 shows afolding sequence of a 11 11 Miura origami (220 DOF,with 1% deformation) found by the proposed methodwithin 1.7 seconds1 . Examples and results of foldinglarger tessellations can be found in Section 5.Our planner requires the crease pattern for computingthe folding map. In Section 6 we propose a novel algorithm to obtain the crease pattern of a rigid foldedorigami from an unknown crease pattern. This allowsthe input of our system from crease patterns extendedto rigid origamis in arbitrary configurations.2Related WorkPlanning under closure constraints. There have beenmany methods proposed to plan motion for articulatedrobots under closed-chain constraints [11, 12, 13, 14].Interestingly, we see many similar ideas used in bothclosed-chain systems and origami folding. For example,gradient decent was used by [8] for rigid origami simulation and by [11] for generating valid configurationof a closed-chain system. Another example is inversekinematics, which plays the central role both in Balkcom’s simulator [9] and in constructing the so-calledkinematic roadmap [13, 15] for capturing the topology offree configuration space. Tang et al. [16] proposed an efficient sampling-based planner for spatially constrainedsystems. By sampling in the reachable distance space1 All timing data reported in this paper are collected on a 2012Macbook Pro laptop with a 2.9GHz Intel Core i7 CPU and 16GB RAM.2
33.1Preliminaries:ModelRigid OrigamiFaces We use F(i,j,.) to refer to a face in the crease pattern,where {vi , v j , .} are its vertices. The crease line l(i,j)belongs to two faces F(i,j,.) and F( j,i,.) .For a non-triangular crease pattern, we will triangulateit first, newly added diagonals are called virtual edgeswhose folding angles should always be zero otherwisethe panel will be bended.Crease PatternIn this paper, we use crease pattern, a straight-edgedgraph embedded in the plane, to represent the rigidorigami model. Fig. 2 shows the crease patterns of theorigami tessellations used in our experiments (in Section 5). An edge of this graph correspond to the locationof a crease line in an unfolded sheet. A crease line canbe either mountain folded or valley folded. A mountainfold forms a convex crease at top with both sides foldeddown. On the other hand, a valley fold forms a concavecrease.3.2ConfigurationWe use the folding angles of all crease lines to representthe configuration of an origami model. For an origamiwith n crease lines, its configuration is represented asC [ρ(i1 ,j1 ) , ρ(i2 ,j2 ) , · · · , ρ(in ,jn ) ] T . Given a configurationC , we can classify C according to its foldability and feasibility.Real & Virtual Vertices Vertices in crease pattern can becategorized into two groups: real vertices and virtualvertices. Vertices on the boundary of a pattern are considered as virtual vertices and they cannot act as witnessvertices for the purpose of computing folding map. Using the folding map of a given configuration, we caninstantaneously fold a crease pattern to a folded shape.All other vertices are considered as real vertices. For example, vertices v1 , v2 , v3 and v4 are the only real verticesin Fig 5(a) and all the other vertices are virtual vertices.Foldability For a real vertex vi in a multi-vertex creasepattern, let Ai be the 4 4 matrix which translates apoint in 3 by vi . Let B(i,j) be the 4 4 matrix in homogeneous coordinates which rotates around z-axis forplane angle α(i,j) , and let C(i,j) be the 4 4 matrix inhomogeneous coordinates which rotates around x-axisfor folding angle ρ(i,j) . Then the 4 4 folding matrixof counter-clock-wisely crossing crease line l(i,j) withwitness vertex vi is χ((i,j),i) Ai B(i,j) C(i,j) B( i,j1) Ai 1 .Let {l(i,j1 ) , l(i,j2 ) , . , l(i,jc ) } be the crease lines incidentito vi , ordered by their plane angles α(i,j) , where ci is thenumber of crease lines incident to vi . If we pick F(i,jc ,.)ias F0 and fix it in the xy-plane, we define the local foldci(a) 4 4 Miuraability matrix for real vertex vi as L(vi ) χ((i,jt ),i) .t 1(b) 4 4 QuadFinally, the necessary condition of foldability is:L(vi ) I, vi(1)This condition for multi-vertex rigid origami was firstdiscovered by Balcastro and Hull in 2002 [7].(c) 4 6 WaterbombFeasibility There are several properties that an origamirigid folding should have: (1) unstretchable, (2) flat (planar) for all faces, and (3) free of self intersection. A foldable configuration only guarantees the first two properties. In order to check if C is free of self intersection, weneed a folding map for each face. A folding map is a function that maps a point in 2 to the corresponding pointof folded state in 3 for a given foldable configuration.(d) 12 14 WaterbombFigure 2: Crease patterns used in the experiments. Themountain creases are shown as solid lines in red, valleycreases are show as dashed lines in blue.Crease Lines We use l(i,j) to denote the crease line thatconnects vertex vi and v j in which at least one vertexshould be real. Boundary edges in the crease patternare not considered as crease lines. Each crease line l(i,j)is associated with a plane angle α(i,j) which is the anglebetween vi v j and [1, 0] T (x-axis) and a folding angle ρ(i,j)which equals to π minus the dihedral angle betweentwo faces sharing the crease line l(i,j) . The value of ρ isbounded in [-π, π] to avoid adjacent faces penetratingeach other.4Folding via Adaptive Randomized SearchSearching for a valid folding motion of an origami tessellation is difficult because of its highly constrained nature3
and high dimensional configuration space. In particular,there are n closed-chain constraints for an origami withn real vertices. These constraints make most (if not all)existing probabilistic motion planners impractical. In[20] we show that for rigid origami with closure constraint, the portion of free space is near to zero evencertain amount of deformation is allowed.crease pattern with different deformation bounds foundby the proposed method are shown in Fig. 4. We can seethat there are huge differences between assigned foldingangles and measured ones due to deformation. Somevirtual edges have more than 15 folding angles whichmeans some panels have been bended in order to reduce the deformation which is not tolerable in practice.Theoretically, they should be the same if the configuration is foldable and the origami will be deformationfree. Within 1% deformation, they become identical (seeFig. 4(d) and Fig. 4(c)). Note that, instead of simply filtering out configurations with large deformation, we havealso tried incorporating maximum deformation in theobjective function, but the optimization process is oftentrapped in local minima due to the higher complexity ofthe objective function.In this paper, we extend FROCC [19] which uses an adaptive randomized search with nonlinear optimization.FROCC samples a random configuration Crand aroundcurrent configuration Cτ and pushes Crand to a foldableconfiguration C via nonlinear optimization (NLOpt). IfC is feasible and closer to the goal, it then replaces Cτwith C and keep doing so until goal is reached. FROCCworks well in practice, however, it also has several issuesthat we are trying to address in this paper.F (C) max L(vi ) I iDeformation (%)Objective Function Intuitively, because each real vertexof a foldable configuration must satisfy the constraintin Eq. (1), for a given real vertex vi , we want the local foldability matrix L(vi ) to be as close to an identitymatrix I as possible. However, the objective functionF (C) i L(vi ) I used by FROCC could be easilytrapped at local minima. In this paper, we updated theobjective function to Eq. (2).1.510.50-0.5-130 60 90 120 150 180Folding Sequence(a) 3 3 Miura(2)Deformation (%)If L(vi ) 6 I, deformation will be introduced, in Eq. (2)we try to minimize the maximum deformation whichworks better than the original one.Deformation Bounded Search (DBS) During randomized search, NLopt finds an optimal configuration Caround Cτ , but the value of F (C ) in Eq. (2) may be nonezero. This is because local-foldable configuration mightnot exist around Cτ or NLopt is not able to find it withingiven iterations. Consequently, none-zero F (C ) leadsto deformation in folded oragami. However, directlybounding F (C ) [19] does not give us a quantitative rigidity measure. To illustrate this, in Fig. 3, we show deformation measured in terms of the stretch and shrinkageof edges given that F (C ) 0.1. We can see that withthe increase of size of the crease pattern, though theirfolding paths still look identical (with the naked eye),the edge deformation is quite dramatic (increased from 1.5% in 3 3 Miura to 10% in 5 5 Miura).420-2-4-6-8-1030 60 90 120 150 180Folding Sequence(b) 5 5 MiuraFigure 3: Edge deformations during the folding processby requiring F (C ) 0.1 for Miura crease patterns. Left:Crease patterns. Right: Edge deformations.Running times against various deformation upperbounds are shown in Table 1. As we can see, when lowerthe deformation tolerance, our method takes longer timeto find a valid path which is expected. The main computation time is from the increase in the number of iterations needed to find an accurate enough foldableconfiguration in NLopt.Thus, we propose a deformation bounded search (DBS)that checks the maximum amount of deformation measured by the change of edge length including virtualedges which is defined as ( e f olded eorg )/ eorg .In DBS, we use the same objective function in Eq. (2) butonly accept configurations that are within the deformation bound given by the user. The folding path foundby DBS is guaranteed to be deformation bounded andself-intersection free, which has not been achieved before in the community. Folding paths for the 3x3 MiuraLarge Origami Tessellation Though FROCC works wellin lower dimensional space ( 10), with the increasing ofthe complexity of the crease pattern (e.g., large origamitessellation), it becomes harder for FROCC to find a validpath. Detailed discussion regarding this issue will begiven in Section 5.4
Folding AngleFolding Angle1801501209060300-30-60-90-120-150-18030 60 90 120 150 1805.1Folding Sequence(a) 5%(b) 5%Folding 60300-30-60-90-120-15030 60 90 120 150 180Folding Sequence30 60 90 120 150 180Folding Sequence(c) 1%(d) 1%Figure 4: Assigned and measured folding angles underdifferent deformation upper bound for folding a 3x3Miura crease pattern. Left: Assigned folding anglescomputed by NLopt. Right: Measured folding angles.These are the folding angles measured on the origamiafter folded with the assigned angles.Table 1: Planning Time v.s. Deformation Upper BoundModelDOF4 4 Miura244 4 0002000Time (s)0.140.181.513.170.340.492.4212.41v5v16 v15v14v6v1 v2v13v7v8v4 v3v12v9 v10 v11(a) Crease patternDUB Deformation Upper Bound, MI Maximum Iteration for NLopt. Themaximum iteration for NLopt is set to the minimum value that could make theplanner achieve over 90% success rate.5Crease Group and Essential VertexGiven a large crease pattern (tessellation), crease linescan be gathered into groups naturally due to symmetryproperty. We say that a set of crease lines are in onecrease group if the absolute value of their folding anglestrace out the same folding trajectory. Given the creasegroups, we define essential vertices as a set of real vertices whose incident crease lines collectively cover allthe crease groups. The smallest essential vertices can befound by solving the set covering problem. An example ofcrease groups is shown in Fig. 5, in which crease linesbelong to the same crease group are shown in the samecolor. From Fig. 5 we can see that the 3 3 Miura creasepattern has only two crease groups: all vertical creaselines are in one group and all horizontal crease lines arein another group, even though they have different type(mountain fold v.s. valley fold). Since any of the realvertices can cover all the crease groups, the 3 3 Miuracrease pattern has only one essential vertex which couldbe v1 or v2 or v3 or v4 .30 60 90 120 150 180Folding SequenceFolding ) Crease groupsFigure 5: Crease groups of a 3 3 Miura crease pattern.Crease lines belong to the same crease group are shownin the same color.Folding Large Origami TessellationBy gathering crease lines from a large crease pattern intocrease groups, the DOF of the origami can be reducedfrom the number of crease lines to the number of creasegroups. Moreover, by identifying essential vertices, weonly need to check the local foldability (Eq. (2)) on essential vertices, a much smaller subset of real vertices thanthe number of all the real vertices. Table 2 reports thesize of crease groups and essential vertices of 6 creasepatterns. As we can also see in Table 2, using symmetryand essential vertex significantly reduces the computation time for finding a valid folding motion. We alsotested the running with and without collision detection.From Table 2 we can see when we use full DOF for planning, the majority of the time is spent on finding validconfiguration, collision detection takes only about 2%of the running time for folding the 5 5 Miura creaseA tessellation is a type of crease pattern that can usuallybe viewed as an arrangement of smaller repetitive creasepatterns. As a result, the degrees of freedom of a tessellation is usually very large (758 for a 12 22 Waterbomband 1680 for a 24 24 Miura fold). Finding valid foldingmotion for such as tessellation can be extremely timeconsuming. In order to speed up the motion planner, wepropose the idea of crease group and essential vertex byexploiting symmetry in the tessellation in Section 5.1.Computation reuse is a widely used technique to improve the performance of a robotic system [21, 22]. InSection 5.2, we propose the idea of reusing folding pathfound on the essential crease pattern to fold large origami5
pattern. However, when we use symmetry property andessential vertex, the running time reduced significantly,collision detection (with almost the same amount of computation) then dominates the running time which takesabout 83% on average.Folding Angle9060300-303060Folding Sequence(a) 4 61501209060300-30-60-90-120-150Folding AngleFolding AngleGiven a crease pattern (tessellation), if this crease patternis rigid foldable, it is expected that the folding angles ofall crease lines in the same crease group remains identicaleven when planning is done using the full DOF. Furthermore, the trajectories are expected remain identical whenfolding a smaller but same type tessellation as shown inFig. 6.30 60 90 120 150 180Folding Sequence(a) 3 3 Miura DOF 12(b) 12 ding Sequence(d) 4 61501209060300-30-60-90-120-150(c) 4 6Deformation (%)Reusing Folding PathDeformation (%)5.20.40.20-0.2-0.4-0.6-0.83060Folding Sequence(e) 12 14Figure 7: Reusing folding path. (a) Folded shape of4 6 waterbomb crease pattern shown in Fig. 2(c). (b)Folded shape of 12 14 waterbomb crease pattern shownin Fig. 2(d) by reusing folding path (c). (c) Folding pathfound on the essential crease pattern Fig. 2(c). (d) Edgedeformation when folding Fig. 2(c). (e) Edge deformation when folding Fig. 2(d) by reusing the folding path(c).30 60 90 120 150 180Folding Sequence(b) 5 5 Miura DOF 40Figure 6: Folding paths found without using symmetryinformation.dramatic for non-rigid-foldable crease pattern. An example of non-rigid-foldable crease pattern is shown inFig. 8. Folding a 24 24 Quad crease pattern shown inFig. 8(a) by reusing a 0.1% deformation upper boundfolding path found on its essential crease pattern shownin Fig. 8(b) gives us a large ( 400%) deformation shownin Fig. 8(g) due to folding map inconsistency. Thus, wecan determine the rigid-foldability of a given symmetriccrease pattern by reusing path found for its essentialcrease pattern.This give us the idea of reusing the folding path foundon smaller crease pattern to fold the large one whichis much more computational efficient. With the creasegroup and essential vertex in mind, here we define theconcept of essential crease pattern which is the smallestcrease pattern that contains all essential vertices as realvertices. We first find a folding path whose deformationis enough low on the essential crease pattern that couldsatisfy the deformation criteria when folding the largerpattern with it since the deformation will be amplifiedwith the increase of size of the crease pattern. Then thefolding path is applied to the original crease pattern.Proposition 5.1 If a crease pattern with a goal configurationis symmetrically rigid foldable, then the folding process of thatcrease pattern is deformation bounded when it is folded byreusing an arbitrary deformation bounded folding path foundon its essential crease pattern.An example of reusing folding path for another rigidfoldable crease pattern Waterbomb is shown in Fig. 7.The configuration of the folded tube is from [23] in whichthe authors showed that the tube is in fact continuousrigid foldable and our method confirms that the foldingprocess is indeed rigid. As we can see from Fig. 7, thoughthe deformation by reusing folding path is about 10xlarger than the one on the essential crease pattern, itis still within the user given deformation upper bound(1%).6Unfolding Rigid Folded ShapesNote that the folding map is applied on the crease pattern, thinking about the scenario that given a 3D shapethat was rigid folded from some unknown crease pattern. Without knowing the crease pattern beforehand,our planner is not able to fold or unfold the origami. Toaddress this problem, we propose a novel algorithm toNote that, when reusing folding path, the deformationwill be scaled up according to crease pattern size. Weobserve that this increasing in deformation is much more6
Table 2: Path Planning Time using Symmetry.ModelRV/EV3 3 Miura5 5 Miura24 24 Miura4 6 Waterbomb8 10 Waterbomb12 22 Waterbomb4/19/1529/115/363/3231/3SYMEVDOFMITime (sec)CD (%) 02250.09881.63250.08285.371680N/A N/A N/A te that the running time were obtained under 5% deformation upper bound. RV Real Vertex, EV Essential Vertex, SYM Symmetry, MI Maximum Iteration,CD Time cost for Collision Detection. The symbols and , in the columns of SYM and EV, indicate if symmetry and essential vertex are used or not. * The plannerfailed to find a valid path within the time limit due to high DOF.unfold a rigid folded 3D shape to its crease pattern asshown in Algorithm 1, which can unfold the 3D shapeinstantaneously while the intermediate motion remainsunknown. The target folding angle for each crease linecan be measured from the folded shape. An example ofunfolded Yoshimura crease pattern is shown in Fig. 9(f)which is unfolded from a half-folded shape shown inFig. 9(d).Algorithm 1 Unfold Rigid Folded Shape to Crease PatternInput: Rigid folded shape S (triangular mesh)Output: Crease pattern CP of S1:2:3:Proposition 6.1 Any rigid folded shape can be flattened toits crease pattern instantaneously.4:5:6:77:Compare with Existing WorksAlthough there have been several existing works on simulating or planning motion of rigid origami [6, 9, 2], mostof these works are only applicable to specific type ofrigid origami. Tachi’s Rigid Origami Simulator (ROS) [8]provides the most general solution so far and is the onlypublicly available software the we are aware of. Consequently, we have tested ROS extensively using thecrease patterns shown in the paper. However, we foundthat it is difficult to provide a meaningful comparisonto our methods due to that both approaches focus ondifferent objectives. The main objective of this paperis to find rigid folding path from one configuration to8:9:10:11:12:13:14:15:7Pick an arbitrary face from S as F0Place F0 onto xy-plane arbitrarilyCP { F0 }while not all faces of S were attached to CP doPick a face F from S , s.t. at least one edge of Fwas attached to CPif One edge of F was attached to CP thenAttach F to CP without overlapping CP .Two ways to attach F to CP , one of them causesoverlapping.else if Two edges of F was attached to CP thenAttach the last edge of F to CPelseDo nothing. All three edges of F wereattached to CP , position of F is determined.end ifCP CP Fkend whilereturn CP
(b) 3 33060(c) 3 34000.080.060.040.020-0.02-0.04-0.06-0.08-0.190 120 150Folding Sequence306090 120 150Folding Sequence(e) 3 3(d) 24 24Deformation (%)1501209060300-30-60-90-120-150Deformation (%)Folding Angle(a) 24 24(f) 3 3300200100030 60 90 120 150 180Folding Sequence(g) 24 24Figure 8: Non-rigid-foldable crease pattern. (a) 24 24 Quad crease pattern. (b) Essential crease pattern of (a). (d)Folded shape of (a). (c) Folded shape of (b). (e) Folding path found on (b). (f) Edge deformation when folding (b). (g)Edge deformation when folding (a) by reusing folding path (e).8(a) Miura(d) Yoshimura(b) ROS(e) ROSConclusionsIn this paper, we proposed a randomized approach forplanning the motion of rigid origami. We used a nonlinear optimization method to find a valid (deformation bounded and collision free) configuration arounda given sample configuration. The experimental resultsshows that our planner could efficiently and effectivelyfind valid path for various types of rigid origami thatexisting tools fail to fold. Taking symmetry into consideration and reusing folding path found on the essentialcrease pattern enable us to fold large origami tessellationefficiently.(c) Our method(f) Our methodFigure 9: Comparisons to ROS. Top: (a) Half-folded stateof Miura crease pattern. (b) Maximum folded state fromROS. This configuration found by ROS is not collisionfree. (c) Folded by our method. Bottom: (d) Half-foldedstate of Yoshimura crease pattern. (e) Maximum unfolded state from ROS. (f) Unfolded by our method.The proposed randomized rigid origami folding methodis designed to assist
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