Assembly Method of Blocks for Structures

摘要

Discrete, deterministic and reproducible conversion can provide a drastically varied difference emerging from a slight difference. In this paper, applying the conversion, an assembly method is developed for block structures with qualitatively diversified shapes. For each growing end, a rule (sign) assigned by a term of a simple input numeric series is converted to a growth direction (physical dimension) through interpretation. Utilizing a degree of freedom remaining for selection of context to be referred to for the interpretation, information processing is simplified by sharing the load with the structure being assembled. For the context, information on the figure is adopted, which is locally extracted from information accumulated along the structure as it grows, and expressed as orientation vectors. An example of cubic blocks structure shows that the conformations can be qualitatively varied by replacing a term in the series. The present method may be applicable to mechanical systems such as micro robots and models for research on system characteristics.