Post date: Mar 17, 2021 11:28:5 PM
A fantasy project on reducing engineering design to tasks that can be completed by computers.
<<see robo-statistician>>
<<see Ward's thesis at MIT>>
Robo-engineer depends on identifying
library of available components/processes
language of component/process assembly
genetic algorithm to compare constructions against the fitness-for-purpose function
driver to create designs randomly and to randomly mutate existing designs
fitness-for-purpose function
cost(s) function
Move an object
pick it up with friction (external clamps, internal friction to make hooks)
pick it up with support (platform, hook)
move the object by pushing/sucking with air pressure
ask the object to move itself
create a gravity well that induces the object's spontaneous movement
grow the object in the place it needs to be
built a new object it the new place (and destroy the old object)
ask someone else to move the object
maybe the object does not need to move
Costs