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| Achievements | Publications: Policy Papers |
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| Policy Papers published by Prof. Delbert Tesar |
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| 1. Science paper describing the weakness in our machinery science with emphasis on light industry.
Today, the distinction between light and heavy industry is not germane. For example, we can contribute equally well for construction machinery as for textile machinery. The drive then was to create a concept for “thinking” machines best embodied today by the field of robotics.
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| 2. The overall description of the Weakness Of The Field Of Mechanical engineering (ASME, papers I, II)
with emphasis on machines. This weakness has now broadened to include aircraft, ships, construction systems, etc. These papers are essentially 25 years old. Nothing has occurred to fix the weakness. The government responses have only been token and not close to being a national program of the magnitude needed to get a rapid response. In fact, our $500 billion/year deficit shows that the problem is accelerating.
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| 3. Thirty-Year Forecast On Robot Technology from the point of view of a mechanical engineer.
This paper is now 15 years old. The forecast still holds. We now see a new architecture emerging for intelligent machines virtually identical to that in computers (as represented by Dell, Microsoft). We need to be as aggressive as we were in support of the computer industry. The map is there. We need, now, to prioritize the age of intelligent machines (but, please, no science fiction).
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A Generalized Architecture For Robot structures is feasible today. Once the architecture exists, the science can flourish. My program shows that it can. The most basic building block of machines is the intelligent actuator (similar to the computer chip for computers).
We have moved this technology forward by four orders of magnitude in the past decade and expect to see another four orders of magnitude by 2010. This is the equivalent of Moore’s law for intelligent machines – i.e., we need the actuator to be a standard of investment as the chip has been for electronics. Where is the Field of Robotics Going is a specific generation of the architecture/application history and future of robotics written for the average technically trained reader.
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Status Of U.S. Manufacturing. A snapshot of our dilemma in manufacturing and the fact that the core technology of machines has virtually disappeared in the U.S.
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How Is Wealth Generated? I use Thurow’s book on Building Wealth to show how manufacturing is the key for the U.S., if it wants to maintain its wealth.
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Meeting Human Needs While Reducing Human Drudgery indicates that most people in the world live in drudgery. The U.S. can take the lead in reducing this drudgery by emphasizing the correct class of manufacturing system—the fettling cell. This is the entry-level technology for all value-added manufacturing. It occurs before assembly and this task spectrum requires today, almost continuous human physical involvement.
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Human Scale Intelligent Mechanical Systems.This paper is for those who say that it is not worth investing in the mechanicals, it’s too late; they can’t use the money effectively, etc. When Don Fuqua was Chairman of the House S&T Committee, an electrically-trained program manager from NSF told him that. I say that this is no longer true. This paper shows that it is the imbalance between the electricals and the mechanicals that is the problem. We get much less from our major investment in the electricals because of our weak mechanicals. A small investment in the mechanicals now could make the system whole again and create some real excitement for our young people.
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