Hiroto Kitamori, Chenyu Dong, Masaru Takizawa, Shuya Watanabe, Jun Shintake, Kohei Kimura, Shunsuke Kudoh
This study presents strategies for the three fundamental origami operations of grasping, bending, and folding using a novel robot hand and simple motions. These operations are executed using a simple geometric model and without any visual feedback or physical modeling not to restrict the motions, With a few applications in the field of paper manipulation, realized by a single hand utilizing the elasticity of origami and friction. Folding is performed by holding an origami with more than two points to fix it at any moment for preciseness.