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Steve Edlefsen,Chair
Audrey C. DiFiore
Agenda
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Chair Introduction
IEEE Organization
Chapter Organization
RCICC Scope
RCICC Vision
Chair Introduction
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'79 B.S. Computer Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
'79 - '82 Hughes Aircraft
Digital Signal Processing Department and VHSIC project.
'82 - present TRW/Northrop Grumman
Currently a staff engineer in the Digital Products Center of the Space and Technology
Sector.
Main technical interests: Digital signal processing, specifically, wavelets, neural nets
and fuzzy logic. Also interested in communications, computer architecture, Perl and
Java programming and computer graphics.
Current position: FPGA/ASIC design for our satellite digital communication payloads.
IEEE positions: CLAS Vice-Chair, Student Activities Chair, RCICC Chair
IEEE societies: Signal Processing, Communications, Computational Intelligence
Personal: Grew up in Champaign, Illinois. My father was a music professor at the U.
of I. Actually saw John Bardeen once. Married in '82. Wife: Jo-Ann who also works at
Northrop Grumman, in the same building in fact, so I must behave myself. Three kids:
Kirsten (24), Alexander (21) and (Na)Tasha, 15. Four dogs: Pixel, Chimere, Gizmo
and Topaz all shelties. Was president of the local residents association for 10 years.
Served on the General Plan Advisory Committee and the Senior Housing Board.
Formed the high school wrestling booster club.
Other interests: Music, weightlifting, movies.
Family home page: www.sprangle.com
[email protected]
[email protected]
Chair Introduction
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Inspiration
– Don Meyer, Mike Briggs, et al of CLAS
– Tony Laviano, CLANN
– Greg Shreve, Jim Anderson, TRW
– Bart Kosko
Chapters can provide closer contact with section members.
Interest in R, CI and C, especially CI.
R, CI and C
– P.V. High School DARPA Challenge
– Dana Middle School underwater robotics
– FIRST Robotics
– IEEE CLAS student branches: UCLA, CSULB, LMU, Devry
– CalTech
• Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering
– USC
• USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA
• Bart Kosko
– TRW/NGC unmanned vehicles
• Terrahawk
• Global Hawk
• Broad Area Maritime Surveilance (BAMS)
• Fire Scout
• Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS)
IEEE Organization
The IEEE has*:
» more than 370,000 members, including more than 80,000
students, in over 160 countries.
» 319 sections in ten geographic regions worldwide.
» 1676 chapters that unite local members with similar technical
interests.
» more than 1,526 student branches at colleges and universities in
80 countries.
» 39 societies and 5 technical councils representing the wide
range of technical interests.
» 132 transactions, journals and magazines.
» more than 450 IEEE sponsored or cosponsored conferences
worldwide each year.
» over 900 active IEEE standards and more than 400 in
development.
IEEE Organization: Societies
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Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Antennas and Propagation
Broadcast Technology
Circuits and Systems
Communications
Components Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology
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Computational Intelligence
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Computer
Consumer Electronics
Control Systems
Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation
Education
Electromagnetic Compatibility
Electron Devices
Engineering Management
Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Geoscience & Remote Sensing
Industrial Electronics
Industry Applications
Information Theory
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Instrumentation and Measurement
Lasers & Electro-Optics
Magnetics
Microwave Theory and Techniques
Nuclear and Plasma Sciences
Oceanic Engineering
Power Electronics
Power Engineering
Product Safety Engineering
Professional Communication
Reliability
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Robotics & Automation
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Signal Processing
Society on Social Implications of Technology
Solid-State Circuits
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Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
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Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
Vehicular Technology
IEEE Organization
IEEE
Region
Societies
L.A. Council
Coastal L.A.
Section
UCLA SB
CSULB SB
LMU SB
Devry SB
APS Chapter
MTT Chapter
CS Chapter
RCIC Chapter
CLANN
Chapter Organization: Officers, Reporting
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Officers
– Chair
– Treasurer
Reporting Requirements
– Chapters are required to report meeting activity, financial activity and current
officers.
– Meeting reports should be submitted using the form L31 (
www.ieee.org/L31). There is a field available to add additional email addresses
so a copy can be provided to the Section Secretary. This form should be
completed after each meeting. Two technical meetings per year are required.
– A list of current officers , or change of officers during the year, should be
submitted to the Section Secretary as soon as that information is available.
– Financial information (income and expenses) should be submitted to the
Section Treasurer at the end of each year. If your Chapter has a bank account,
then bank account information and a copy of the year end bank statement should
be included. In addition, you should be familiar with the bank signature card
requirements (see B.3)
– Additional reporting may be required from the Society. For more information,
see Chapter Reporting Requirements.
Chapter Organization: Financial, Operations, Bylaws
• Financial
– separate bank account
– CLAS funds
– Society rebates
• Operations, Bylaws
– elections
– officers duties
– executive committee meetings
– committees
• Chapter Meetings
– proprietary information
RCICC Scope: Robotics And Automation
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Designing and implementing intelligent machines and systems which can do
work too dirty, too dangerous, too precise or too tedious for humans.
– space exploration
– human services and industries
– manufacturing
– medicine
– defense
– space and underwater exploration
– service industries
– disaster relief
– manufacturing and assembly
– entertainment
– etc.
Automation includes the use of automated methods in various applications,
for example, factory, office, home, laboratory automation, or transportation
systems to improve performance and productivity.
Pushes the boundary on the level of intelligence and capability for many
forms of autonomous, semi-autonomous and teleoperated machines.
RCICC Scope: Robotics And Automation: History
• One of the first robots was the clepsydra or water clock, which was
made in 250 B.C. It was created by Ctesibius of Alexandria, a
Greek physicist and inventor.
• The automata of Ancient Greece were intended as toys or tools for
demonstrating basic scientific principles, including those built by
Hero of Alexandria (sometimes known as Heron). When his writings
on hydraulics, pneumatics, and mechanics were translated into Latin
in the sixteenth century, Hero’s readers initiated reconstruction of his
machines, which included siphons, a fire engine, a water organ, and
various steam-powered devices.
RCICC Scope: Robotics And Automation: History
• Al-Jazari is credited for the first recorded designs of a programmable
automaton in the 13th century as well as a set of humanoid
automata.[2]
• Villard de Honnecourt, in his 1230s sketchbook, show plans for
animal automata and an angel that perpetually turns to face the sun.
• Leonardo da Vinci sketched a more complex automaton around the
year 1495.
• The Renaissance witnessed a considerable revival of interest in
automata.
• Descartes when he suggested that the bodies of animals are
nothing more than complex machines
• Seventeenth-century France was the birthplace of those ingenious
mechanical toys that were to become prototypes for the engines of
the industrial revolution.
• The period 1860 to 1910 is known as "The Golden Age of
Automata". During this period many small family based companies
of Automata makers thrived in Paris.
RCICC Scope: Robotics And Automation: History
• The earliest remote control vehicles were built by Nikola Tesla in the
1890's. Tesla is best known as the inventor of AC electric power,
radio (before Marconi), induction motors, Tesla coils, and other
electrical devices.
• Other early robots (1940's - 50's) were Grey Walter's "Elsie the
tortoise" ("Machina speculatrix") and the Johns Hopkins "beast.“
RCICC Scope: Robotics And Automation: History
• "Shakey" was a small unstable box on wheels that used memory
and logical reasoning to solve problems and navigate in its
environment. It was developed by the Stanford Research Institute
(SRI) in Palo Alto, California in the 1960s.
RCICC Scope: Robotics And Automation: History
• The General Electric Walking Truck was a large (3,000 pounds) four
legged robot that could walk up to four miles a hour. The walking
truck was the first legged vehicle with a computer-brain, developed
by Ralph Moser at General Electric Corp. in the 1960s.
RCICC Scope: Robotics And Automation: History
• The first modern industrial robots were probably the "Unimates",
created by George Devol and Joe Engleberger in the 1950's and
60's. Engleberger started the first robotics company, called
"Unimation", and has been called the "father of robotics."
RCICC Scope: Robotics And Automation
• Chris von Alt, developer of Jason, the
underwater robot that gave the world the first
peek inside the Titanic
RCICC Scope: Robotics And Automation
• NGC Global Hawk
RCICC Scope: Robotics And Automation
RCICC Scope: Computational Intelligence
• Developing the theory, design, application, and development of
biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms
emphasizing
– neural networks
– connectionist systems
– genetic algorithms
– evolutionary programming
– fuzzy systems
– hybrid intelligent systems in which these paradigms are
contained.
RCICC Scope: Computational Intelligence: History
The Antikythera mechanismis believed by many to be an ancient
mechanical analog computer (as opposed to most computers today which
are digital computers) designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was
discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera,
between Kythera and Crete, and has been dated to about 150-100 BC.
RCICC Scope: Computational Intelligence: History
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Possibly the first person in the history of formal logic to use a mechanical
device to generate (so-called) logical proofs was the Spanish theologian
Ramon Lull (1274)
William of Ockham (1285-1349) discovered the foundations for what were to
become known as DeMorgan Transformations, which were described by
Augustus DeMorgan some 500 years later.
The first mechanical calculator may have been conceived by Leonardo da
Vinci almost one hundred and fifty years earlier than Pascal's machine
(1500)
The first real logic machine, called the Stanhope Demonstrator, was
invented in the early 1800s by the British scientist and statesman Charles
Stanhope (third Earl of Stanhope).
In 1822, Babbage proposed building a machine called the Difference
Engine to automatically calculate mathematical tables.
1937 AD Alan Turing invents the Turing Machine
1938 AD Claude Shannon's master's Thesis
Lotfi Zadeh publishes his seminal work on fuzzy sets in 1965 in which he
detailed the mathematics of fuzzy set theory
RCICC Scope: Computational Intelligence: History
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1949 Hebb The Organization of Behavior – Psychological learning.
1958 Roseblatt, the perceptron convergence theorum.
1963 Widrow and Hoff, LMS algorithm
1982 Hopfield energy function, statistical model and information
storage in dynamically state neural networks.
• 1982 Kohonen, self-organizing maps
• 1986 Rumelhart, Hinton and Williams, the back-propagation
algorithm
• Rumelhart and McClelland, Parallel Distributed Processing:
Explorations in the Microstructures of Cognition.
RCICC Scope: Computational Intelligence
Deep Blue
RCICC Scope: Computational Intelligence
M-5 Computer
The M-5 makes it impossible for it to be disconnected. It
becomes increasingly erratic, a result of Dr. Daystrom's
impressing his brain engrams onto the computer. It attacks four
other Federation starships. Kirk convinces it that it has
committed the sin of murder and while the M-5 tries to commit
suicide, they are able to disconnect the M-5 unit.
RCICC Scope: Computational Intelligence
“I feel much better now, Dave”.
RCICC Scope: [Systems, Man And] Cybernetics
• Promoting and advancing the theory, practice, and interdisciplinary
aspects of systems science and engineering, human-machine
systems, and cybernetics. It is accomplished through conferences,
publications, and other activities that contribute to the professional
needs of its members.
• Development of systems engineering technology including problem
definition methods, modeling, and simulation, methods of system
experimentation, human factors engineering, data and methods,
systems design techniques and test and evaluation methods.
• Integration of the theories of communication, control, cybernetics,
stochastics, optimization, and system structure towards the
formulation of a general theory of systems.
• Application at hardware and software levels to the analysis and
design of biological, ecological, socio-economic, social service,
computer information, and operational man-machine systems.
RCICC Scope: [Systems, Man And] Cybernetics
Dr. David Gow, of the Prosthetics Research and Development Team
at Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital, made the first
bionic arm called the Edinburgh Modular Arm System (EMAS) in
1998.
RCICC Scope: [Systems, Man And] Cybernetics
Imagine a prosthetic knee system so smart that it automatically
adapts to an individual's walking style and environment, learning
continuously and optimizing control over time.
The RHEO KNEE® is the world's first microprocessor swing and
stance knee system to utilize the power of artificial intelligence.
Capable of independent thought, it learns how the user walks,
recognizing and responding immediately to changes in speed,
load and terrain. http://www.flexfoot.com/pages/2734
RCICC Scope: [Systems, Man And] Cybernetics
The PROPRIO FOOT thinks for itself, responding beautifully to
changing terrain and transforming the approach to stairs and
slopes, as well as level-ground walking. Angling itself
appropriately, it also helps amputees to sit and stand up easily
and more naturally. The PROPRIO FOOT™ also has a
calibrated alignment control feature. Overall, the effect is a
feeling of improved proprioception with a more balanced,
symmetric and confident gait with reduced wear and tear on the
back, hips and knees.
RCICC Scope: [Systems, Man And] Cybernetics: History
• 1700 James Watt's steam engine was equipped with a governor, a
centrifugal feedback valve for controlling the speed of the engine.
• Norbert Wiener used the term “cybernetics” to denote the study of
"teleological mechanisms" popularized by his book Cybernetics, or
Control and Communication in the Animal and Machine (1948).
• The Biological Computer Lab at the University of Illinois,
Urbana/Champaign, under the direction of Heinz von Foerster, was
a major center of cybernetic research for almost 20 years, beginning
in 1958.
RCICC Scope: [Systems, Man And] Cybernetics
RCICC Vision, Goals
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Chapter meetings/symposiums, etc.
– Technical
– Moral implications
– Effects on society
Fundraising
Working with corporations
New membership
Educational outreach programs
– pre-collage – NGC
– collage and post-grad
RCICC network
– forming a coalition of robotics, ci and cybernetics groups
– CLANN http://nanoworldusa.com/
Promotional ideas
– t-shirts
– videos and other media
Newsletter
Websites
– http://www.sprangle.com/steve/rcicc/rcicc.htm
– http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/coastal_la
Weblogs/webforums
RCICC Vision, Goals: Nanotechnology
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CLANN http://nanoworldusa.com/
– Dr. Tony Laviano
– The Nanotechnology Center at LMU
The latest “hot area” in technology
Nanotechnology permits scientists to rearrange atoms and to build matter from the
ground up
– substance are rearranged with atomic precision.
– any chemical structure that is not disallowed by the laws of physics can be
rebuilt.
– new building blocks can be created that produce materials with the exactly the
desired properties, which are generally smaller, stronger and lighter than current
technologies.
Has fostered many small start-up companies that are seeking funding to pursue their
business plans.
Now used in digital electronics, communications systems, et al.
– MEMS – nanoscopic mechanical mirrors used in packet switching
Other examples:
– nano tweezers that can pick up a molecule
– tiny nano machines that can be injected into the blood stream via syringe to fight
viruses
RCICC Vision, Goals: Nanotechnology: Carbon Nanotubes
Nanotubes, minuscule cylinders of carbon atoms just a few
nanometers across, are lightweight and stronger than steel,
and they can conduct electricity. Sheets of nanotubes can
now be easily manufactured.
RCICC Vision, Goals: Nanotechnology: Carbon Nanotubes
nanotube
cable
elevator
car
GEO
35,786 km =
22,236 miles
earth
RCICC Vision, Goals: Nanotechnology: Carbon Nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes (the "pea pod"
in this illustration) can be used to
make television displays that
have higher resolution, better
image quality, and more efficient
operation than the best liquidcrystal displays or plasma
screens on the market today.
RCICC Vision, Goals: Nanotechnology: Nanoscale Machines
Nanoscale machines, such as the
simple pump that can be used to
deliver chemicals or drugs shown in
this model from the Institute for
Molecular Manufacturing, in Los
Altos, Calif., USA, would be built
atom by atom. The design target
was an effective, selective pump for
neon.
RCICC Vision, Goals: Nanotechnology: Micro-Electro-Mechanical
Systems (MEMS)
An electrically-driven motor smaller
than the diameter of a human hair
Ratchet Drive
RCICC Vision, Goals: Nanotechnology: Micro-Electro-Mechanical
Systems (MEMS)
Optical Mirror
Fiber
Optic
Input
Reflector
light beam
Optical
Mirrors
Fiber Optic
Output
In Conclusion