Utility fog-"The stuff dreams are made of ! "

1. PRESENTED BY,
PARVATHY S DILEEP
GUIDED BY,
JINU RAJ

2.  INTRODUCTION
 BETTER IDEA ABOUT UTILITY FOG
 MODES OF OPERATION
 ARCHITECTURE
 PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
 Basic structure
 Communications and Control
 GENERAL PROPERTIES
 ADVANTAGES OF A UTILITY FOG ENVIRONMENT
 APPLICATIONS AND USES
 THE LIMITS OF UTILITY FOG
 CONCLUSION

3.  Collection of microrobots that transforms into
anything the user desires
 Programmable to simulate most physical
properties
 Replacement of robots programmed just for
specific purposes

4.  Concept coined by Dr John Storrs Hall in 2001
 Based on the concept of molecular
nanotechnology
 Conglomeration of 100-micron robotic cells
or foglets
 Each foglet is the size of a human cell with 12
arms

6.  Robot (foglet) with the size of a human cell
 Swarm of foglets known as utility fog
 Enables -
 creation
 levitation
 manipulation
 teleportation
 shape shifting

7. •Mobility concept-Can move in different
directions and can perform any mechanical
action
•Example :
•Table-solid and locked
•Fan-solid components with moving joints
Native
mode
•Static concept-Static foglets ,Pixelate,
to transmit information and sound
•Example:
•Display screen on immovable objects
with 100 micron resolution with a
processing power of 286 PC
Fog mode

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9.  Exoskeleton made up of aluminium oxide
 Each Foglet has twelve arms, arranged as the faces
of a dodecahedron.
 Spherical central body-10 micron
 12 telescopic arms-50 micron long ,5 microns in
diameter
 Arms with swivel joints at the base with 4 degree of
freedom
 Three grippers on each arm for interconnecting
foglets.

12.  Couplers
Communication and power control
 Optical waveguide
Communication from user
 Power and electrical transmission line
Power supply in foglet
 Grippers
Locking foglets together

14.  Foglets run on electricity, store hydrogen as an
energy buffer.
 Hydrogen fuel tank-Hydrogen ions combine with
oxygen to produce electricity and water vapour as
by-products
 Some waste heat generated by Fog at work can be
utilized in heat pumps
 Colour and reflectivity of an object are results of its
properties as an antenna in the micron wavelength
region.

16.  Takes commands ,processes it using pre-
processor and passes results among other foglets
 Done by building a nanocontroller which can
direct a 10 kilohertz robot.
 Control of the arms is actually simple - Managed
by simple controllers that take commands like
"Move to point X at speed y.“
 RISC design allows single processor to control a
100 kHz arm; using auxiliary controllers let it do
all 12 easily.

17.  Major advantage is safety
Cars-Seat belt
Safety from nuclear explosions
Household safety
 Physical manipulation & assembly
 Transportation
 Reduces wastage of space
 Life made easy
ADVANTAGES OF UTILITY FOG ENVIRONMENT

18.  Build efficient machines for long distance
information propagation and physical
transportation
 For local use and interface with worldwide
network
 Space researches
 Manages pressure in space suits
 No worries on floating of the ship
 Shape shifting reduces wastage of space

19.  Cannot stimulate very hard materials
 Lack of self intelligence
 Cannot handle anything involving chemical
reactions
 Cannot form food or water
 Cannot produce high temperatures

20.  Replacement for all the technologies around
us
 More compatible and sophisticated
 Safer environment
 Wonder world making life easy and lazy

21.  L. E. Parker, “Current research in multi-robot
systems,” Journal of Artificial Life, vol. 7, 2004.
 Lynne E Parker, “Distributed Intelligence: Overview of
the field and its applications”. Journal of Physical
Agents, Vol. 2, No.1 (2008).
 A. Farinelli, L. Iocchi, and D. Nardi. “Multi-robot
systems: A classification focused on coordination”.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics B,
34(5):2015–2028, 2004.
 L. Parker, “ALLIANCE: An architecture for fault
tolerant Multi-robot cooperation,” IEEE Trans. Robot.
Automat., vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 220– 240, April 1998
 Google Wikepedia
 KurzweilAI.net

22. THANK YOU