Autosopher – Robot interface

Connecting the Autosopher’s input/output codes with robot actuators and sensors.

Research opportunity

Abstract: Computers communicate with sensors and mechanical actuators using binary “quantities” in bit streams using separate cables. Autosopher, in contrast, communicate with “meaning” using addresses. Our brain, for example, communicates with our sense organs and muscles using nerve impulses, which travel along specific nerve fibers like electrical / chemical signals. Instead of using bundles of fibers, like our brain, an electronic Autosopher would use “addresses” send along a common bus line. This may use a universal 64bit data code. The bus line may be implemented as a daisy chain running from device to device, either sensors or actuators. The bus lines may run in a loop to provide self-checking and dual path redundancy in case of bus damage. The purpose of this research would be to design a bus system, using universal jumper cables in a daisy chain, to interconnect all the sensors and actuators in a robot.

Applications: Autosophy robots of the future may be built from standard modules (memory, sensors, actuators), which are connected to each other with standard jumper cables forming a bus loop in a daisy chain. The standard modules would all be compatible and interchangeable. Very large systems would be assembled from standard modules into any configuration, for easy assembly and repair by unskilled labor. Assembly and repair may eventually be done by maintenance robots.

Keywords: Autosophy, Robot sensor/actuator interface.

Available downloadable documents:

Publication 2005 – Memories – Webpage htm

Publication 2003 – 64bit data format – Webpage htm

Publication 1993 – Robot vision – Webpage htm

Publication 1992 – Aerospace – Webpage htm