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Animated Paper

Naoya Koizumi, Kentaro Yasu, Angela Liu, Maki Sugimoto, Masahiko Inami (2010)
A papercraft actuation system using a laser light-based energy projection  

Animated Paper is a new wireless prototyping platform that combines paper, shape memory alloy (SMA), retro-reflective material, and copper foil. This platform makes it possible to create a moving papercraft. This platform makes it possible to create moving toys out of ordinary print paper with minimal modification to the physical composition of the paper itself, facilitating simple trial-and-error modifications. We also implemented a laser control system that allows for the precise wireless motion control of the SMA-enhanced paper by tracking retro-reflective markers on the paper using a laser and photosensor. 

Publication: 

  • Naoya Koizumi, Kentaro Yasu, Angela Liu, Maki Sugimoto, Masahiko Inami, "Animated paper: A toolkit for building moving toys", Computers in Entertainment (CIE) 8 (2): 7 (2010) DOI: http: // doi. acm.org/10.1145/1899687.1899689   

  • Naoya Koizumi, Kentaro Yasu, Angela Liu, Maki Sugimoto, Masahiko Inami, “Animated Paper: A Moving Prototyping Toys”, 7th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, (ACE2010), (Taiwan, November17-19, 2010) DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1866218.1866234

  • Naoya Koizumi, Kentaro Yasu, Angela Liu, Maki Sugimoto, Masahiko Inami, “Animated Paper: A Moving Prototyping Platform”, UIST '10 Adjunct Proceedings of the 23rd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST2010), pp.389- 390, 2010.10. (New York, October 3-6, 2010) DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1866218.1866234

  • Kentaro Yasu, Naoya Koizumi, Makoto Kondo, Keika Zhu, Liu Angela, Maki Sugimoto, Masahiko Inami, "Animated Paper -Proposal of Control Method for Planar Robots Using Energy Projectors-", Robotics and Mechatronics Lecture Summary 2010, "1A1-F03 (1)"-"1A1-F03 (4)", 2010.6

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