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FRACTAL ROBOTS
ASHARANI.R 1PE07EC011 8TH SEMESTER DEPT OF ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION PES SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING BANGALORE-560100
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Lego bricks?????
The production of LEGO bricks is so accurate that only 18 out of 1 million LEGO elements produced is considered defective. strong enough to hold onto another brick but easy enough to pull apart.
PRINCIPLE :
The principle behind Fractal Robots is very simple. we take some cubic bricks made of metals and plastics, motorize them, put some electronics inside them and control them with a computer. you get machines that can change shape from one object to another No manual intervention is necessary.
Overall functionality.
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self organization: Self-organization is a basically a process of evolution where the effect of the environment is minimal, i.e. where the development of new, complex structures takes place primarily in and through the system itself. goal orientation : works hard to achieve the assigned task.
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Self Repair
Purpose. Animation of repair of a defective part:
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These robots can assist in production and manufacture of goods thus bringing down the manufacturing price down dramatically.
Construction Details
As simple and cheap as possible. A fractal cube.[BFU]
Construction:
The robotic cubes are assembled from face plates which have been manufactured and bolted to a cubic frame .
The cube therefore is hollow and the plates have all the mechanisms.
The plates also have 45 degree petals that push out of the surface to engage the neighboring face that allows one robotic cube to lock to its neighbor.
Computer control:
The largest component of the Fractal Robot system is the software. The commands to control a Fractal Robot are all commands for movement such as move left, right etc . computer program to control the robot is greatly simplified in that whatever software that is developed for a large scale robot, it also applies to the smaller scale with no modifications to the command structure.
Movement mechanism
Cross section of plate: Petals movement.
Movement algorithms
Movement of cubes. 3 Basic movement methods:
Pick and place N-streamers L-streamers (single and group movements)
Entire collection of movements needed to perform particular operations] are worked out and stored exactly like conventional robots store movement paths. (Paint spraying robots use this technique.
N-streamers:
A rod is pushed out from a surface, and then another cube is moved into the vacant position. The new cube is joined to the tail of the growing rod and pushed out again to grow the rod.
L-Streamers:
Basically, an L-shape of cubes numbered 4, 5, and 6 in figure 5.2.a attached to a rod numbered 1, 2, 3, and then a new cube 7 is added so that the rod grows by one cube until it looks like figure 5.2.f. When large numbers of cubes follow similar paths, common cubes are grouped into a collection and this collection is controlled with same single commands
2.Fire Fighting
Enter through the rubble.
Support building from collapse. On board fire hoses. Locate and rescue survivors.
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3.Space exploration
One of the best areas of application. Advantageous features : cheapness , self repair, 100% automation possibilities. Build anything from space stations to satellites. No human intervention.
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4.Medical Applications
Turn into variety of surgical tools. No need of cutting open the patient. Minimal blood loss during surgery. A complete fractal surgeon.
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5.Earthquake applications
Terrain undefined. Multi terrain-walking and crawling abilities. Support further collapse. Fire fighting robots , medical robots.
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6.Military applications
Turn into a multi terrain vehicle. Dodge incoming shells. Carry reconfigurable array of weapons. Self repair.
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Limitations
Still in infancy. Per unit cost. Software limitations. Energy efficiency.
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Conclusion
Versatility of applications. Save economy and time.
FRACTAL ROBOT.
THANK YOU
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