VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Belagavi-590018

TECHNICAL SEMINAR REPORT

On
FRACTAL ROBOTS

SUBMITTED BY
Sandeep Prasad Yadav
USN:1RI16ME025
Subject Code:15MES86
Under the guidance of
Mr. NAGESH KUMAR R
(Assistant Professor)
In partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of degree of

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

RR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Raja Reddy Layout, Chikkabanavara
Bangalore-560090,
 RAJA REDDY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
(Affiliated to VTU Belgaum and Approved by AICTE, New Delhi, recognized by Govt. of Karnataka, Accredited by
NAAC with B+)

Raja Reddy Layout, Chikkabanavara, Bangalore- 560090

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the technical seminar work entitled “FRACTAL ROBOTS” has been
carried out by Mr. SANDEEP PRASAD YADAV in partial fulfillment for the requirement of
ℎ
8 semester in Mechanical Engineering of the VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL
UNIVERSITY, Belgaum during the academic year 2019-2020. It is certified that all
corrections/suggestions indicated for internal assessments have been incorporated in the report.
The technical seminar report has been approved as it satisfies the academic requirement in
respect of seminar work prescribed for the Bachelor of Engineering Degree.

Signature of Guide Signature of HOD Signature of principal

Mr. NAGESH KUMAR R. Dr. CHENNABASAVARAJ S Dr. SRINIVAS G BHAT

DEPT OF MECHANICAL DEPT OF MECHANICAL RRIT, BANGLORE-90
ENGINEERING ENGINEERING
 DECLARATION

I have made this report file on the topic FRACTAL ROBOTS. I have tried my best to
elucidate all the relevant detail to the topic to be included in the report. While in the
beginning I have tried to give a general view about this topic.

My efforts and whole hearted co-operation of each and every one has ended on a successful
note. I express my sincere gratitude to assistant professor Mr. NAGESH KUMAR R who
assisted me throughout the preparation of this topic. I thank him for providing me the
reinforcement, confidence and most importantly the track for the topic whenever I needed it.

SANDEEP PRASAD YADAV

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
RRIT, BANGLORE-90
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to thank respected Mr. NAGESH KUMAR R and Dr. CHANNABASAVARAJ S,
HOD, DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, RRIT for giving me such a
wonderful opportunity to expand my knowledge for my own branch and giving me guidelines to
present a seminar report. It helped me a lot to realize of what we study for.

Secondly, I would like to thank my parents who patiently helped me as i went through my
work and helped to modify and eliminate some of the irrelevant or unnecessary stuffs.

Thirdly, I would like to thank my friends who helped me to make my work more
organized and well-stacked till the end.

Next, I would thank Microsoft for developing such a wonderful tool like MS Word. It helped
my work a lot to remain error-free.

Last but clearly not the least, I would thank the almighty for giving me strength to
complete my report on time.
 PREFACE

I have made this report file on the topic FRACTAL ROBOTS. I have tried my best to
elucidate all the relevant detail to the topic to be included in the report. While in the
beginning I have tried to give a general view about this topic.

My efforts and wholehearted co-corporation of each and every one has ended on a
successful note. I express my sincere gratitude to Mr. NAGESH KUMAR R who
assisting me throughout the preparation of this topic. I thank him for providing me the
reinforcement, confidence and most importantly the track for the topic whenever I needed
it.
 CONTENTS

 INTRODUCTION

 WHAT ARE FRACTALS?

 FRACTAL ROBOT MECHANISM

 MOVEMENT ALGORITHM

 SELF REPAIR

 APPLICATIONS

 LIMITATIONS

 CONCLUSION

 REFERENCES
 INTRODUCTION

 The birth of every technology is the result of the quest for

automation of some form of human
work.
 This has led to many inventions that have made life easier for
us.
 Fractal Robot is a science that promises to revolutionize
technology in a way that has never been witnessed before.
 WHAT ARE FRACTALS?

A fractal is anything which has a substantial measure of exact or

statistical self-similarity. Wherever you look at any part of its body it

will be similar to the whole object.

FRACTAL ROBOT MECHANISM

Simple Construction details:

Considerable effort has been taken in making the robotic cubes as

simple as possible after the invention has been conceived.The design

is such that it has fewest possiblemoving parts so that they can be

mass produced.

Movement Mechanism

To see the internal mechanisms, we need a cross section of the plate.

 Implementation of computer control

 All active robotic cubes have a limited microcontroller to

perform basic operations such as the communication and control

of internal mechanism.

 The largest component of the Fractal Robot system is the

software.

Fractal O.S
The Fractal O. S plays a crucial role in making the integration of the

system seamless and feasible. A Fractal O. S uses a no: of features to

achieve these goals.

 Transparent data communication.

 Data compression at all levels.

 Awareness of built in self repair.

Fractal Bus

 This is an important and pioneering advancement for fractal

computer technology.

 A Fractal bus permits Hardware and software to merge

seamlessly into one unified data structure.

 It helps in sending and receiving fractally controlled data.

MOVEMENT ALGORITHMS

 There are many mechanical designs for constructing cubes, and

cubes come in different sizes, but the actual movement method

is always the same.

 There are only three basic movement methods.

 Pick and place

 N-streamers

 L-streamers
SELF REPAIR

 There are three different kinds of self repair that can be

employed in a fractal robot.

 The easiest to implement is cube replacement.

APPLICATIONS OF FRACTAL

ROBOTS

➢ Bridge Building

One of the biggest problems in civil engineering is to get enough

bridges built as rapidly as possible for mass transit and rapid

development of an economy.
Fire Fighting

 Fire fighting robots need to enter a building through entrances

that may be very small.

 The machines themselves may be very large and yet they must

get through and once inside, they may have to support the

building from collapse.

Entering Buildings

 Shape changing robots can enter a building through entrances

that are as small as 4 cubes.

 These shape changing robots could be carrying a fire hose in

which case on entering they can apply the hose immediately.

Defense Technology

 The use of new technology of fractal shape changing robots in

defense applications is going to completely change the way

warfare is conducted in the next millennium.

 The machines even at the slow speeds shown in animated figure

above can dodge incoming shells at 2 km distance by opening a

hole in any direction.

Earth Quake Applications

Once a building is damaged by earthquakes, the terrain inside (and

outside) the building is completely undefined. You need true multi-

terrain vehicles with walking abilities that can transform

interchangeably into crawling machines to get past obstacles and

reach the buildings and structures that need to be repaired.

Medical Applications

A fractal robot system with 1 mm cubes can squirt into the human

body through a 2 mm pin hole and rebuild itself inside the body into

surgical instruments and perform the operation without having to

open up the patient

Space Exploration

Space is probably one of the best application areas for fractal robots

because of its cheapness,built in self repair and 100% automation

possibilities.
 LIMITATIONS

 Technology is still in infancy.

 Current cost is very high ($1000 per cube for the 1st generation

of cubes, after which it will reduce to $100 or so).

 Needs very precise & flexible controlling software.

 CONCLUSION

 It may take about 4-5 years for this technology to be introduced

and tried out all over the world.

 But once the first step is taken and its advantages well

understood it will not take much time for it to be used in our

everyday life.

 Using Fractal Robots will help in saving economy; time etc and

they can be used even for the most sensitive tasks.

 References

 www.google.com

 www.wikipedia.com

 www.studymafia.org