Utility Fog
CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Concepts of UTILITY FOG
2.1 Structure
2.2 Working
2.3 Properties
3. Implementation 3.1 Self Reconfiguring Robots 3.2 Homogenous Self Reconfiguring Robots 3.3 Crystalline module concept 3.4 Design 3.5 Motion and Control
4. Applications
5. Problems
6. Conclusion References
Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION:
The Idea of Utility fog was originally put forward by Edison in 1890. These tiny robots are theorized by Dr. John Storrs Hall with 12 extending arms that would link up with neighboring foglets (units of utility fog) to share information and energy forming a continuous network. The idea of Utility fog was proposed to make artificial “seat belts” which protect a driver from accidents. Utility fog is sometimes thought of as a nano technological version of the Swiss Army Knife. This micro scale device represents the forefront of molecular nanotechnology. Once they are made they have these powers embedded in the simple fog –
Creation--causing objects to appear and disappear on command.
Levitation--causing objects to hover and fly around.
Manipulation--causing forces (squeezing, hitting, pulling) objects (real ones) at a distance.
Teleportation--nearly any combination of telepresence and virtual reality between fog-filled locations
The only major breakthrough necessary to enable us to build the Fog world is nanotechnology itself. Assemblers, the sine qua non of nanotechnology, will require two major feats of molecular engineering: building molecular-sized, individually controllable, physical actuators, arms, motors, gears, sprockets, pulleys, and the like; and then building molecular sized computers to control them.
Chapter 2
CONCEPTS OF UTILITY FOG
2.1 Structure
Each Foglet has twelve arms, arranged as the faces of a dodecahedron. The central body of the foglet is roughly spherical, 10 microns in diameter. The arms are 5
1. Introduction
2. Concepts of UTILITY FOG
2.1 Structure
2.2 Working
2.3 Properties
3. Implementation 3.1 Self Reconfiguring Robots 3.2 Homogenous Self Reconfiguring Robots 3.3 Crystalline module concept 3.4 Design 3.5 Motion and Control
4. Applications
5. Problems
6. Conclusion References
Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION:
The Idea of Utility fog was originally put forward by Edison in 1890. These tiny robots are theorized by Dr. John Storrs Hall with 12 extending arms that would link up with neighboring foglets (units of utility fog) to share information and energy forming a continuous network. The idea of Utility fog was proposed to make artificial “seat belts” which protect a driver from accidents. Utility fog is sometimes thought of as a nano technological version of the Swiss Army Knife. This micro scale device represents the forefront of molecular nanotechnology. Once they are made they have these powers embedded in the simple fog –
Creation--causing objects to appear and disappear on command.
Levitation--causing objects to hover and fly around.
Manipulation--causing forces (squeezing, hitting, pulling) objects (real ones) at a distance.
Teleportation--nearly any combination of telepresence and virtual reality between fog-filled locations
The only major breakthrough necessary to enable us to build the Fog world is nanotechnology itself. Assemblers, the sine qua non of nanotechnology, will require two major feats of molecular engineering: building molecular-sized, individually controllable, physical actuators, arms, motors, gears, sprockets, pulleys, and the like; and then building molecular sized computers to control them.
Chapter 2
CONCEPTS OF UTILITY FOG
2.1 Structure
Each Foglet has twelve arms, arranged as the faces of a dodecahedron. The central body of the foglet is roughly spherical, 10 microns in diameter. The arms are 5