Prior approaches to transformer-like robots had only very limited success. They suffer from lack of reliability, ability to integrate large surfaces, and very modest change in overall shape. Robots can now be built from two-dimensional (2D) layers of robotic fabric. These transformers, a new kind of robotic space system, are dramatically different from current systems in at least two ways. First, the entire transformer is built from a single, thin sheet; a flexible layer of a robotic fabric (ro-fabric); or robotic textile (ro-textile). Second, the ro-textile layer is foldable to small volume and self-unfolding to adapt shape and function to mission phases.
Transformers: Shape-Changing Space Systems Built with Robotic Textiles
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Transformers: Shape-Changing Space Systems Built With Robotic Textiles
Online Contents | 2013
The Role of Custom Built Robotic Systems
Kraftfahrwesen | 1982
|Notes of phase-changing auto-transformers
Engineering Index Backfile | 1926
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