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Materiales para circuitos integrados mecánicos

Charles El Helou¹, Benjamin Grossmann², Christopher E Tabor²

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.

|August 24, 2022

Resumen

Los investigadores crearon materiales mecánicos suaves y conductores capaces de realizar cálculos complejos. Este avance permite el procesamiento de información escalable en materia de ingeniería, avanzando los sistemas autónomos.

Área de la Ciencia:

Ciencias de los materiales
La robótica
Ingeniería informática

Sus antecedentes:

La materia artificial autónoma requiere capacidades avanzadas de procesamiento de información.
Los métodos actuales para el procesamiento de información en materia blanda carecen de escalabilidad.
Las funcionalidades de detección y accionamiento se han integrado en la materia blanda.

Objetivo del estudio:

Para establecer una base para la ingeniería de materiales vivos.
Desarrollar un procesamiento de información escalable en materia blanda.
Para unir las matemáticas booleanas y los circuitos reconfigurables en materiales blandos.

Principales métodos:

Utilizando las matemáticas booleanas y el método Quine-McCluskey para la minimización de funciones lógicas.
Diseño de circuitos eléctricos cinemáticamente reconfigurables dentro de materiales conductores blandos.
Desarrollo de métodos de diseño automatizados basados en funciones booleanas y conjuntos de conmutación de puertas.

Principales resultados:

Operaciones lógicas combinadas demostradas en materiales mecánicos blandos.
Logró aritmética de más alto nivel, comparación de números y decodificación binaria a visual.
Aumento de la densidad computacional utilizando un enfoque de diseño monolítico capa por capa.

Conclusiones:

Los materiales de circuitos integrados mecánicos ofrecen un enfoque escalable para el procesamiento de información.
El marco es adaptable a varias escalas de longitud y sistemas físicos.
Este trabajo allana el camino para la materia de ingeniería verdaderamente autónoma.

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