Steve Edlefsen,Chair

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Steve Edlefsen,Chair Audrey C. DiFiore
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Agenda

• Chair Introduction
• IEEE Organization
• Chapter Organization
• RCICC Scope
• RCICC Vision

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Chair Introduction

• '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
• steve_at_sprangle.com edlefsen_at_ieee.org

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Chair Introduction

• 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

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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.

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IEEE Organization Societies

• Aerospace and Electronic Systems
• Antennas and Propagation
• Broadcast Technology
• Circuits and Systems
• Communications
• Components Packaging, and Manufacturing
  Technology
• Computational Intelligence
• 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

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IEEE Organization
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Chapter Organization Officers, Reporting

• 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.

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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

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RCICC Scope Robotics And Automation

• 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.

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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, Heros readers initiated reconstruction
  of his machines, which included siphons, a fire
  engine, a water organ, and various steam-powered
  devices.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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RCICC Scope Robotics And Automation

• Chris von Alt, developer of Jason, the underwater
  robot that gave the world the first peek inside
  the Titanic

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RCICC Scope Robotics And Automation

• NGC Global Hawk

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RCICC Scope Robotics And Automation
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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.

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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.
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RCICC Scope Computational Intelligence History

• 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

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RCICC Scope Computational Intelligence History

• 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.

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RCICC Scope Computational Intelligence
Deep Blue
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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.
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RCICC Scope Computational Intelligence
I feel much better now, Dave.
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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.

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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.
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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
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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.
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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.

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RCICC Scope Systems, Man And Cybernetics
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RCICC Vision, Goals

• 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

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RCICC Vision, Goals Nanotechnology

• 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

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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.
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RCICC Vision, Goals Nanotechnology Carbon
Nanotubes
nanotube cable
GEO 35,786 km 22,236 miles
elevator car
earth
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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 liquid-crystal displays or plasma
screens on the market today.
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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.
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RCICC Vision, Goals Nanotechnology
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
An electrically-driven motor smaller than the
diameter of a human hair
Ratchet Drive
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RCICC Vision, Goals Nanotechnology
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
Optical Mirror
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In Conclusion