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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Adrian Tymes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 1/918 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 1/918 ;
Abstract
An array of devices connected to each other, in a grid or other fashion, which are able to adjust their position and/or orientation relative to one another, in order to alter the overall structure that the devices form. Also, a controller that can determine this structure from data provided by the devices, and tell each device what relative position and orientation it should be in so that the overall structure changes to some other desired shape.