UTILITY FOG

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 INTRODUCTION

 Invented by Dr.J.Stross Hall.

 Foglets consists of microscopic computers
,gears,motors with telescopic arms .
 Arms interlock –power & communication.
 Individual foglets 2-3 % of space.
 TRANSPARENT UPCLOSE & CLOUDY AT A
DISTANCE.
 Trillions of foglets- mass ,motion, appearance &
strength.
STRUCTURE OF FOG
STRUCTURE OF FOGLET
 DAILY APPLICATIONS

 Paint the wall with U Fog.

 Make walls of U Fog .
 Can form any object.
 Obselete objects can form floor.
 Any hardness ,temp.
 Same precision as measured by human
senses.
 The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
:
 Little robot called Foglet.-12 arms.
 Grippers at the end of arms.
 Present as well as absent-large structures.
 Foglets can simulate any environment-a
park & at next moment a forest.
 In a room filled with Foglets –walk without
noticing anything.
 MODES OF OPERATION
 Native & fog.
 Native –individual foglets move.
 Fog - move enmass
 Why we fill air with microscopic robots ?
 Completely imaginary construction
 Anything imaginable can be given tangible reality
 Bacteria sized pieces and stored
 Bridges physical reality and virtuality
 Structure of Utility Fog
 Nanotech designs based on carbons
 Forms a crystal which is very stiff and strong
 Structural element of Foglet made of aluminium
oxide
 Inside this sensitive non mechanical components
can operate
 Each Foglet has 12 arms
 Arms rotate on the joint at the base
 Gripper rotate about arm axis
 Structure contd…
 Only load carrying motor is extension or
retractor motor
 Swivel and rotate axis do not drive any kind of
load
 Gripper-Hexagonal structure with 3 fingers on
alt.faces of hexagon
 Forces transmitted axially through grip
 Space bounded by arms form alternate
tetrahedrons and octahedrons
 Both these are rigid shapes
 Movement of Fog
 Fog consists of layers of Foglets
 Each Foglet uses six arms for interlocking with
Foglets of same layer
 Thus 2-D rigid fabric of equi. Triangles formed
 The Foglets slides to change shape
 Fog moves an object by setting up a seed
shaped zone around it
 Extension and retraction rate of arm-10m/s
 Avg. interlayer movement rate-100m/sec/mm of
thickness of layer
 Properties of U Fog.
 U Fog - density- 0.2 ; tensile strength
-100 psi
 Material properties are isotropic
 Without altering lattice connectivity Fog
can contract to 1/3rd and reduce volume to
1/5th
 An appropriate mass or UFog can simulate
most physical properties
THE GRIP
 Foglets in detail
 Foglets run on electricity
 They store hydrogen as energy source

 Foglets slide or move objects

 When 2 layers move past each other arms move
100 thousand times
 If this motion dissipative consumes lot of power
 Arms being pushed receive same amt. of energy
Foglets – Internal Schematic
 Communications & Control

 12 arms & 3 axis control

 Simpler controllers give commands
 Each computer - nano watts
 Trillions of computers –few kW heat
produced
 Foglet when stationery- “ stand – by mode
“
 this reduces 90 % heat generation
 SYNERGISTIC COMBINATION WITH
OTHER TECHNOLOGIES
 Fog robot – fog cannot do anything
requiring “high strength &power “
 Tapping other sourcesof energy
 Solar energy
 Communicate with some person/terninal
 Within some specified area
 PROPERTIES & USES
 Extension of human being and his senses
 No permanent buildings ,roads,cars
 Park,forest, ancient civilization
 Efficiency increases- no wear & tear
 Storing information easier
 All physical possesion inside your pocket
 Monster computers
 Processor of foglet more powerful than
supercomputer
 26 million foglets /cu.inch
 LIMITATIONS OF U FOG
 “outside the everyday exp.”
 Things that fog isn’t capable of doing:
 Hard metal-drill bit
 High strength & low weight
 High heat
 Anything req chemical transformation
 Food
 Can simulate wind but not air
 Unemployment
 DESIRABLE LIMITATIONS
 A person capable of “projecting objects”
& “forces” anywhere in any form
 “Who gets to control what” –a very
contentious question
 Physical proximity
 Personal space
 This single protocol can prevent crimes
and violence
 Physically perpetrated theft impossible
 Advantages of U Fog
Environment.
 Car crash
 Fog house –protection within 98%of lethal blast
area
 Bacteria free
 Accidents in factories can be avoided
 Household accidents avoided- staircas, knife ,
bookshelf.
 Cleaning –non –existant
 Factories- transportation & operation of machines
 SPACE EXPLORATION
 The major sys Of space ships
 Fill cabin with utility fog -- never worry about
out of reach of hand hold
 Any equipment can be simulated
 Non simulable can be embedded
 Fog inside space suit
 Surround space station with u fog-radiation
shielding
 Tourists –take along batch of heavy duty u-fog
 CONCLUSION
 Using the mass computing power contained in
these trillions of foglets they could be
programmed with a wide spectrum of
behaviours that mimic materials of different
mass,motion appearance and function which
will enhance the capabilities of human race in
the coming generations .

 The illutions which we see in films and we have

dreamed of can be implemented using the
capabilities of utility fogfor which research is
going on in a high pace.
THANK YOU
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