Robotics Deployable Tower

2020

Robotics Deployable Tower
Robotics Deployable Tower
Robotics Deployable Tower
Robotics Deployable Tower
Robotics Deployable Tower
Robotics Deployable Tower
Robotics Deployable Tower
Robotics Deployable Tower
Robotics Deployable Tower
Robotics Deployable Tower

A student project: an 8-meter telescoping tower that can be erected without anyone working at height, built from carbon-fiber-wrapped aluminum pipe cured into CFRP.

A Miura-ori fold gives the structure a single-degree-of-freedom mechanism; multiple small robots work in tandem to build and deploy it — one wrapping carbon fiber and applying resin, others raising the mechanism as turnbuckle robots.

Created by
Yuta Shimoda
Collaborators
永渕飛鳥, 小島慎平, 白石恵美, 伊勢坊健太, 氏岡啓威
Award
JSCA Prize, 15th Student Summer Seminar 2019
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