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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

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

Project-Based Learning Approach for an Engineering Course: Challenges and Learnings of Teaching Transversal Skills

Jamie Paik, Yousef Jalali, Iris Capdevila Tristan

Project-based learning (PBL), as one of the effective teaching and learning approaches in engineering education, can create opportunities for students to address problems with real-world applications, integrate and apply knowledge, and practice and develop ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

A reconfiguration strategy for modular robots using origami folding

Jamie Paik, Christoph Heinrich Belke

Reconfigurability in versatile systems of modular robots is achieved by changing the morphology of the overall structure as well as by connecting and disconnecting modules. Recurrent connectivity changes can cause misalignment that leads to mechanical fail ...

SAGE Publications2018

Sensorless force and displacement estimation in soft actuators

Jamie Paik, Sagar Dattatray Joshi

Sensing forms an integral part of soft matter based robots due to their compliance, dependence on loading conditions, and virtually infinite degrees of freedom. Previous studies have developed several extrinsic sensors and embedded them into soft actuators ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Compact Pneumatic Clutch With Integrated Stiffness Variation and Position Feedback

Jamie Paik

Stiffness variation and real-time position feedback are critical for any robotic system but most importantly for active and wearable devices to interact with the user and environment. Currently, for compact sizes, there is a lack of solutions bringing high ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Soft actuation and sensing towards robot-assisted facial rehabilitation

Jamie Paik, Amir Firouzeh

Continuing research efforts in robot-assisted rehabilitation demand more adaptable and inherently soft wearable devices. A wearable rehabilitative device is required to follow the motion of the body and to provide assistive or corrective motions to restore ...

2017

Ultra-tunable bistable structures for universal robotic applications

Jamie Paik, Lei Wang, Ke Liu, Hongying Zhang

Bistable structures in nature are unparalleled for their fast response and force amplification even with the most minute physical stimula-tion. However, current works on bistable structures mainly focus on their stable states, while promising intermediate ...

CELL PRESS2023

Hybrid Wireless-Local Communication via Information Propagation for Modular Robotic Synchronization Applications

Jamie Paik, Christoph Heinrich Belke, Kevin Andrew Holdcroft

Modular robots hold promise of adaptability, robustness, and versatility. Synchronization of modules is critical; if a module is asynchronous, not only will the robot fail to perform tasks properly, but its behavior may be self-destructive through self-col ...

WILEY2022

Reconfigurable Haptic Feedback: Comprehensive Design and Control Framework

Jamie Paik, Serhat Demirtas

Haptic interfaces enhance the virtual reality experience by emulating real‐world touch‐based interactions and delivering tactile feedback, while also supporting rehabilitation through interactive systems that speed up recovery. However, current haptic tech ...

Wiley2025

Robotic Muscular Assistance-As-Needed for Physical and Training/Rehabilitation Tasks: Design and Experimental Validation of a Closed-Loop Myoelectric Control in Grounded and Wearable Applications

Jamie Paik, Mohssen Fischer

In this work a solution for the design of an assistive system for both muscular effort compensations and muscular effort generations for physical and rehabilitation tasks is presented. The proposed human-in-the-loop (HITL) control directly exploits the sub ...

Springer Nature2021

A sEMG-driven Soft ExoSuit based on Twisted String Actuators for Elbow Assistive Applications

Jamie Paik, Andres San Millan Rodriguez, Mohssen Fischer

The scope of this work is to show the applicability of the Twisted String Actuators (TSAs) for lightweight, wearable and assistive robotic applications. To this aim, we have developed a novel surface electromyography (sEMG)-driven soft ExoSuit using the TS ...

2020

Soft robot design methodology for ‘push-button’ manufacturing

Jamie Paik

‘Push-button’ or fully automated manufacturing would enable the production of robots with zero intervention from human hands. Realizing this utopia requires a fundamental shift from a sequential (design–materials–manufacturing) to a concurrent design metho ...

2018

Soft Bionic Sensors and Actuators

Jamie Paik

2021

Automatic Couplings with Mechanical Overload Protection for Modular Robots

Jamie Paik, Christoph Heinrich Belke

This paper presents an automatic coupling mechanism with mechanical overload protection for use in modular robotic systems. The genderless coupling incorporates a novel safety mechanism that disengages two modules at a pre-defined torque threshold. Several ...

2019

The Design of A New Rotary Hexapod with A Single Active Degree of Freedom

Jamie Paik, Alexey Fomin

This study provides a novel approach for designing a rotary hexapod with a single actuator and definable motion of a platform. Hexapod is a parallel structure mechanism with six legs and six degrees of freedom (DoF) of an end-effector. It is not an underac ...

2017

An Origami-Inspired Reconfigurable Suction Gripper for Picking Objects with Variable Shape and Size

Aude Billard, Jamie Paik, Zhenishbek Zhakypov

Gripper adaptability to handle objects of different shape and size brings high flexibility to manipulation. Gripping flat, round, or narrow objects poses challenges to even the most sophisticated robotic grippers. Among various gripper technologies, the va ...

2018

Data-Driven Kinematic Modeling of Physical Origami Robots

Jamie Paik, Mustafa Mete, Alexander Michael Schüssler

Origami-inspired structures facilitate the design of compliant and compact robots. However, physical origami robots possess inherent material compliance and mechanical imperfections, presenting challenges in modeling and redundant actuation for accurate co ...

2024

Stretchable Kirigami Components for Composite Meso-Scale Robots

Jamie Paik, Amir Firouzeh

Layer-by-layer manufacturing of composite mechanisms allows fast and cost-effective fabrication of customized robots in millimeter and centimeter scales which is promising for research fields that rely on frequent and numerous physical iterations. Due to t ...

2020

Soft Touch using Soft Pneumatic Actuator-Skin as a Wearable Haptic Feedback Device

Jamie Paik, Harshal Arun Sonar, Jian-Lin Huang

Understanding the external environment depends heavily on vision, audition, and touch. Like vision and audition, the human sense of touch is complex. Tactile perception is composed of multiple fundamental and physical experiences felt as changes in stiffne ...

2021