Designing and Analyzing Multistable Mechanisms Using Quadrilateral Boundary Rigid Origami

Abstract Multistable origami and its snapping behaviors between the folded states have attracted scientists’ engineers’ attention as building block for design of mechanical devices metamaterials. We propose a novel method designing origami-based multistable structures, by which we mean (1) to obtain prescribed overall motion (2) control stiffness provided elastic strain. solve this problem first representing desired with linkage structures quadrilateral holes, called frames, then filling frames modules, boundary modules. By introducing an intentional incompatibility motions behavior that follows motion. provide representation model evaluate optimization-based framework design. also validate our applied Sarrus through bar-and-hinge analysis experiments using physical prototypes.