EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S79640/01 |
Title: |
Smart Table: Massively Parallel Actuator Array Controlled By Non-Linear Medium (Pilot Project) |
Principal Investigator: |
Adamatzky, Professor A |
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Department: |
Faculty of Environment and Technology |
Organisation: |
University of the West of England |
Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
Starts: |
01 October 2004 |
Ends: |
30 September 2006 |
Value (£): |
95,234
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EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
Instrumentation Eng. & Dev. |
New & Emerging Comp. Paradigms |
Robotics & Autonomy |
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EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications: |
No relevance to Underpinning Sectors |
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We will develop theoretical foundation for designing and programming parallel non-linear medium based manipulator, which intelligently transports, filters, orients and positions several objects at a time. The parallel manipulator will have a modular structure; its control units and effectors will be arranged in a regular locally connected network. All actuators, sensors and elements of the non-linear medium will work in parallel. In designing the computational model of manipulator we will realise novel ideas of actuation in a non-linear medium; manipulating objects by the employment of spreading and growing patterns of diffusive wave-fronts and waves of excitation. The control of the actuator will be based on advances and findings in the fields of non-linear physics, smart materials and structures, space-time dynamics in disordered media, phenomenology of pattern formation and emergence of computation in optical, reaction-diffusion chemical and biological excitable media.
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