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Foundations of Robotics Seminar, September 24
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Origaminator III

Devin Balkcom

Time and Place
3305 Newell-Simon Hall
Refreshments 4:15 pm
Talk 4:30 pm

Abstract

Robotic origami. I'll present some fun and famous theorems about flat origami, and give simple proofs. I'll describe a simple class of human-foldable origami, 'Pureland origami' that was developed for handicapped children, and I'll describe an even simpler class of origami I developed for my robot. I'll present a complete planner for 'simply foldable' origami, and describe a necessary condition for an origami pattern to be simply foldable. There will be a movie of the robot folding origami. I'll talk a bit about spherical closed chains and crease networks, and demonstrate why it is impossible to fold a shopping bag. All questions about topology will be deferred until my next talk.

 
Speaker Appointments
For appointments, please contact Devin Balkcom.


The Robotics Institute is part of the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.