30 research outputs found
Folding a Paper Strip to Minimize Thickness
In this paper, we study how to fold a specified origami crease pattern in
order to minimize the impact of paper thickness. Specifically, origami designs
are often expressed by a mountain-valley pattern (plane graph of creases with
relative fold orientations), but in general this specification is consistent
with exponentially many possible folded states. We analyze the complexity of
finding the best consistent folded state according to two metrics: minimizing
the total number of layers in the folded state (so that a "flat folding" is
indeed close to flat), and minimizing the total amount of paper required to
execute the folding (where "thicker" creases consume more paper). We prove both
problems strongly NP-complete even for 1D folding. On the other hand, we prove
the first problem fixed-parameter tractable in 1D with respect to the number of
layers.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figure
Result of Space Particle Monitor (SPM) on-Orbit Demonstration
Space Particle Monitor (SPM) is a compact, lightweight and low-cost radiation measurement device that applies two PIN silicon semiconductor detectors. SPM was developed in the SERVIS (Space Environment Reliability Verification Integrated System) project under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), and is mounted on JAXA RAPid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite 1 (RAPIS-1) launched in January 2019. We achieved the full success that the discrimination and energy content of electrons, protons, and heavy ions could be observed. This paper reports on-orbit demonstration results of SPM