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Ori-Pixel, a Multi-DoFs Origami Pixel for Modular Reconfigurable Surfaces

Jamie Paik, Stefano Mintchev, Marco Salerno

Reconfigurable surfaces using robotic pixels can produce discretize 3D contours, shapes and motion patterns. In existing devices, the rendering resolution and richness of shapes and patterns are limited by the use of linear pixels that only produce single ...

2020

Single chamber multiple degree-of-freedom soft pneumatic actuator enabled by adjustable stiffness layers

Sébastien Douglas de Rivaz, Jamie Paik, Marco Salerno, Junius Santoso

Soft pneumatic actuators promise simple, adaptable, and safe manipulation, but the nature of pneumatic circuits limits the scalability of this approach. This paper introduces a method to augment the degrees-of-freedom of soft pneumatic actuators without in ...

2019

A portable three-degrees-of-freedom force feedback origami robot for human-robot interactions

Alexandre Thierry Cherpillod, Jamie Paik, Stefano Mintchev, Marco Salerno, Simone Scaduto

Haptic interfaces can recreate the experience of touch and are necessary to improve human-robot interactions. However, at present, haptic interfaces are either electromechanical devices eliciting very limited touch sensations or devices that may provide mo ...

SPRINGERNATURE2019

FOLDAWAY DroneSense, a controller for haptic information encoding for drone pilots

Jamie Paik, Stefano Mintchev, Marco Salerno

Over the last decade, the number of drones has significantly increased. In parallel, researchers have started to investigate new human-drone interaction paradigms for a more natural and immersive piloting experience. The use of haptic feedback to establish ...

2019

Stiffness Perception of Virtual Objects Using FOLDAWAY-Touch

Alexandre Thierry Cherpillod, Jamie Paik, Stefano Mintchev, Marco Salerno, Simone Scaduto

Haptic human interfaces are nowadays becoming more and more diffused also thanks to their combined use with Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality (VR & AR). Although many research platforms explore kinesthetic interaction with virtual objects, the only feedb ...

Springer2019

Planar pop-up actuator device with embedded electro-magnetic actuation

Jamie Paik, Amir Firouzeh, Marco Salerno

A planar actuator device, including a base plate including a first, second, and third pair of planar coils, each pair of planar coils having an inner coil and an outer coil, each pair of planar coils arranged along a first, second, and third linear motion ...

2018

A planar pop-up actuator device with embedded electro-magnetic actuation

Jamie Paik, Amir Firouzeh, Stefano Mintchev, Marco Salerno

A planar actuator device, including a base plate including a first, second, and third pair of planar coils, each pair of planar coils having an inner coil and an outer coil, each pair of planar coils arranged along a first, second, and third linear motion ...

2018

Design and control of a low profile electromagnetic actuator for foldable pop-up mechanisms

Jamie Paik, Amir Firouzeh, Fabio Zuliani, Marco Salerno

Thin foldable origami mechanisms bring miniaturization and reconfiguration of complex structures allowing large volumetric change, low cost and versatility. Many applications require small robots with multiple capabilities including movement, sensing and c ...

Elsevier Science Sa2017

Stiffness Control With Shape Memory Polymer in Underactuated Robotic Origamis

Jamie Paik, Amir Firouzeh, Marco Salerno

Underactuated systems offer compact design with easy actuation and control but at the cost of limited stable con- figurations and reduced dexterity compared to the directly driven and fully actuated systems. Here, we propose a compact origamibased design i ...

2017

A Low Profile Electromagnetic Actuator Design and Model for an Origami Parallel Platform

Jamie Paik, Amir Firouzeh, Marco Salerno

Thin foldable origami mechanisms allow reconfiguration of complex structures with large volumetric change, versatility, and at low cost; however, there is rarely a systematic way to make them autonomously actuated due to the lack of low profile actuators. ...

2017

Soft Pneumatic Actuator with Adjustable Stiffness Layers for Multi-DoF Actuation

Jamie Paik, Amir Firouzeh, Marco Salerno

The soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) are a solution toward the highly customizable and light actuators with the versatility of actuation modes, and an inherent compliance. Such flexibility allows SPAs to be considered as alternative actuators for wearable r ...

2015

Development and characterization of silicone embedded distributed piezoelectric sensors for contact detection

Kossi Agbeviade, Jamie Paik, Merve Acer, Marco Salerno

Tactile sensing transfers complex interactive information in a most intuitive sense. Such a populated set of data from the environment and human interactions necessitates various degrees of information from both modular and distributed areas. A sensor desi ...

Institute of Physics2015