International Journal of Scientific Research Engineering & Technology (IJSRET) Volu me 2 Issue 11 pp 724 -727 Febr uar y 201 4 www. ijsre t.org ISSN 227 8 – 0882 IJSRET @ 2014 CATOMS AND CLAYTONICS: AN AP PROACH TO SMART WORLD Jatin Chhabra Student (B.Tech) Department of Compu ter Scien ce and Engineering Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon-123506, India Ravi Ahuja Student (B.Tech 4 th sem) Department of Electronics and Computers Engineerin g Dronacharya College of Engineering , Gurgaon-123506, India Aman Jain Student (B.Tech 4 th sem) Department of Electronics and Computers Engineerin g Dronacharya College of Engineering , Gurgaon-123506, India ABSTRACT This paper reviews the worldwide increasing technology of Claytronics which have overcome nanotechnology in some fields. This technology produces very small nano scale computers known as Catoms or Claytronics atoms. In the current edition these catoms perform the basic fun cti on such as color ch ang ing and pe rformi ng calculations using high power LEDs and LCD displays. In the future edition, researchers are planning to implement the technology of catoms to programmable matter i.e. replicas of the surrounding matter in which the basic building block that are catoms are programmed in such a way that they can change their shape and size according to the requirements. In order to achieve this kind of complexity we have to discover some new type of programming languages and not depend on the basic ones i.e. C++ and Java, therefore the researchers at the CMU devel oped t wo type s of lang uages k nown as Meld and Locally Distributed Predicates (LDP). Keywords: programmable matter, catoms, claytronics, LDP, Meld, nanotechnolog y. 1. INTRODUCTION Till now almost all of us are familiar with the smart phones. The phrase “smart” can be assigned to any electronic gadget if it can perform many functions at any time and all these functions can be applied in a singl e, compact and easy to use device. Smart phone is a single device that can act as a way of communication, a way locator, a gami ng parlo r or even a mus ic syst em. The concept of being smart is now taken to a bigger level which is now-a-days known as Smart Homes. The basic or the smallest unit of a smart home is known as Catom (or Clay troni cs atom). The elec troni cs whi ch deal s with the manufacturing and application of the catoms is known as Claytronics. By the use of Cla ytron ics the matter or the so called programmable matter can be mould into any shape and size according to our requirements. The properties of this kind of electronic gadgets will match the properties of clay therefore the name is given as “Claytronics”. 2. CATOMS Devel oped and named by Carneg ie Mellon Univ ersit y, US by the two great minds of research Seth Goldstein and Todd Mo wry in June 20 02, catoms is known to be one of the best innovations in the history of electronics and computers. According to researchers at CMU “Programmable matter” is described as: “ An ensemble of material that contains sufficient local computation, actuation, storage, energy, sensing andcommunication which can be programmed to form interesting dynamic shapes and configurations.”[2] In other words programmable matter is defined to be the collection of those devices that can interact with other through computers, sensors and communication so that they can be transformed into different shapes and size. The technology that is used to design the programmable matter from this tiny ‘catoms’ is known as “Claytronics”.
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8/20/2019 CATOMS AND CLAYTONICS: AN APPROACH TO SMART WORLD