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FRACTAL ROBOTSSEMINAR REPORT Submitted byAIMAN LATIFROLL NO : 330In partial fulfillment for the award of the degree of BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY IN ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION

POST GRADUATE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATIONUNIVERSITY OF KASHMIRAPRIL 2015

Introduction to Robots & Modular RoboticsA robot is more often designed for one particular activity, or at best a few closely related activities. This is course isn't the ideal situation as many jobs require a large number of very different activities. For example, building the walls of a home and installing plumbing and electricity require many different tools and techniques. In practice this means you'll end up designing either several various robots or a very complicated one.Modular robotics is the answer to such problems. Typical modular robots consist of a number ofindependent cubes, which can move and connect themselves in various different ways. Each of the cubes have their own power supply and intelligence and can have specific tools. When a issue is fed to its computer, it analyzes it and connects the cubes in such a way that it does solve the problem.Ideally that a robot would consist of a very large number of very small identical cubes. This is similar to the way plants, animals or humans are consisting of various cells, which are practically identical, with that difference that specification would happen in software rather than in chemical composition.The difference between fractal and modular robotics is that the former allows multiple sizes of cubes and the latter has not.Most people are familiar with the fact that sufficient quantities of clay bricks (architectural bricks) or Lego bricks can be used to approximate nearly any shape, and so the introduction to modular robotics was in terms of cubes. Besides of making each cube independent, some researchers makepairs or triplets of cubes independent. However, some roboticists point out that rhombic dodecahedron are, in some ways, superior to cubes.

IntroductiontoFractalRobotsAbrandnewconceptinthisworldoftechnologyisshapeshiftingroboticsorFractalrobots.Fractalrobotsareobjectsdesignedusingcubicbricks.Acomputerprogramisusedtooperate theserobots.Thecubicbricksarefittedwithamotor.Theycanbecommandedtoperformdifferentfunctionsandcanbeusedinvarious varietyoffields.Thebasisofthistechnologyisthemethodusedtocontrolthe matterdigitally.ThecubicbricksarecalledaRoboticcube.Thesizeofthesecubesisbetweenonethousandatomstotenthousandatoms.Allthesecubeshaveacomputerizedchip,whichcanbefedinwithspecificcommands.Areasofourlives,likethefieldsofconstruction,themedicalfields,themilitaryfieldsandtheresearchfields,canuseFractalrobots moreeffectively.Theserobotscanshortenthetimeneededtobuildahouse,theycanbeusedtoconductriskysurgeries,theycantesttheeffectofmedicinesoncontagiousdiseasesandthesecanalsobeusedtotestthenewdefensetechnology.Allthesefunctionscanbedonewithminimumhumanintervention.Alsotheserobotscan definitelyrepairthemselvesandthuscancontinuetheprogrammedworkwithoutstopping.Thefractalmanufacturingsystemisoneofthenewmanufacturingparadigmsforthispurpose.Abasiccomponentoffractalmanufacturingsystem,called abasicfractalunit(BFU),consistsoffivefunctionalmodulessuchasanobserver,ananalyser,anorganizer,aresolver,andareporter.

FRACTALROBOTS

FractalRobotisasciencethatpromisestorevolutionizetechnologyinawaythathasnever

beenwitnessedbefore.FractalRobotsareobjectsmadefromcubicbricksthatcanbecontrolledbya

computertochangeshapeandtoreconfigurethemselvesintoobjectsofdifferentshapes.These

cubicmotorizedbrickscanbeprogrammedtomoveandshufflethemselvestochangeshapeto

makeobjectslikeahousepotentiallyinfewseconds.ItisexactlylikekidsplayingwithLego

bricksandmakingatoyhouseoratoybridgebysnappingtogetherLegobricks,exceptthatherewe

areusingacomputer.

Thistechnologyhasthepotentialtopenetrateeveryfieldofhumanworklikeconstruction,

medicine,researchandothers.Fractalrobotscanenablebuildingstobuildwithinaday,help

performsensitivemedicaloperationsandcanassistinlaboratoryexperiments.Also,FractalRobots

havebuiltinselfrepairwhichmeanstheycontinuetoworkwithouthumanintervention.Also,this

technologybringsdownthemanufacturingpricedowndramatically.

AFractalRobotresemblesitself,i.e.whereveryoulookat,anypartofitsbodywillbesimilartothe

wholeobject.Therobotcanbeanimatedarounditsjointsinauniformmanner.Suchrobotscanbe

straightforwardgeometricpatterns/imagesthatlookmorelikenaturalstructuressuchasplants.

Thispatentedproducthoweverhasacubicalstructure.Afractalcubecanbeofanysize.The

smallestexpectedsizeisbetween1000and10,000atomswide.Thesecubesareembeddedwith

computerchipsthatcontroltheirmovement.

FRACTAL ROBOT MECHANISM:

SIMPLE CONSTRUCTION DETAILS

Considerable effort has been spent in making the robotic cube as simple as possible after the

invention had been conceived. The design is such that it has the fewest possible moving parts so that

they can be mass produced. Materials requirements have been made as flexible as possible so that

they can be built from metals and plastics which are cheaply available in industrial nations but also

from ceramics and clays which are environmentally friendlier and more readily available in

developing nations.

The cube therefore is hollow and the plates have all the mechanisms. Each of these face plates have

electrical contact pads that allow power and data signals to be routed from one robotic cube to

another. They 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 neighbors.

The contact pads are arranged symmetrically around four edges to allow for rotational symmetry . Cubesare assembledfromface plates bolted to a cube frame

Eachfaceplateshave electrical contact pads that allow data signals to be routed from one cube to another.

Cubes have inductive coupling to transmit power and data signals.

ROBOTIC ARM

APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE WORK:Fractal Robots is an emerging new service that promises to revolutionize every aspect of human technology. Fractal robots are objects made from cubic bricks that can be controlled by a computer to change shape and reconfigure themselves into objects of different shapes. These cubic motorized bricks can be programmed to move and shuffle themselves to change shape to make objects like ahouse potentially in a few seconds. This technology has the potential to penetrate every field of human work like construction, medicine, research and others. Fractal robots can enable buildings to be built within a day, help perform sensitive medical operations and can assist in laboratory experiments. This technology is called Digital Matter Control and is implemented here with a machine called robotic cubes and the entire technology is called Fractal Robot Technology. Also Fractal Robots have built-in self repair which means they can continue without human intervention.

The principle behind Fractal Robots is very simple. You take some cubic bricks made of metals and plastics, motorize them, put some electronics inside them and control them with a computer and you get machines that can change shape from one object to another. Almost immediately, you can now build a home in a matter of minutes if you had enough bricks and instruct the bricks to shuffle around and make a house! It is exactly like kids playing with Lego bricks and making a toy hose or atoy bridge by snapping together Lego bricks-except now we are using computer and all the work is done under total computer control. No manual intervention is required. Fractal Robots are the hardware equivalent of computer software.