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          - continuous variable transmission operating mode
- continuous gear reduction operating mode with gear reduction from 300 > 100,00 > Infinite > -100,00 > -300
          - output reversible without reversing main engine
          - programmable extreme gear reduction
          - gear reduction controlled by speed of a rotating shaft (i.e. not by mechanical levers or rubber belts)
          - low cost - only 6 rotating parts
          - non-slip rigidly coupled gears
          - ideal robotics component for trading mechanical torque for speed through control of gear reduction ratio; new servo technologies possible
          - higher output torque than hydraulic motors for the same volume achieved through arbitrary 'infinite' gear reduction
          - perfect for green vehicles as main input gear can accept multiple input sources (electric motor, diesel engine or even stirling engines) and adjust output gear reduction accordingly

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Halogen Drive Array Kinetic Energy Recovery System (HDA KERS)

    Status: Mechanical design researched and developed
    Feature: Continious variable kinetic energy transfer system without friction drives

    Brief Introduction

    A dual Halogen Drive array is configured with one electric motor to control power transfer direction.
The primary drive shaft of the engine is connected to the input shaft of the HDA KERS by a binary
    clutch. The electric motor is sped up first to make the input shaft match speed of engine before
    the binary clutch engages to transfer power to an internal flywheel within HDA KERS.

    The electric motor then reduces its speed and this couples energy from engine through input shaft to internal flywheel.

    As the speed of the input shaft is progressively reduced, a point is reached where no more
    reduction in engine speed is desired. The electric motor is slowed to a halt and aggressively
reversed at this point, and that allows the flywheel to rotate with its acquired energy
    while the input shaft is free to maintain its idle speed.

    When the reverse spinning motor is slowed again, the flywheel returns its energy back to the input shaft.
When the motor slows to a halt the flywheel and engine are connected for maximum power transfer.
    As the motor speeds up in the forward direction, less and less energy is absorbed
    by the flywheel until the motor reaches input shaft speed. At that point there is no
    load on the input shaft from the flywheel. Any further increase in speed of electric motor is transferred
    to the engine. The binary clutch could disengage instead, and allow the engine
    to operate without KERS.

    The remarkable breakthrough feature of HDA KERS is the control and direction of energy transfer
    maintained not by traditional mechanical means but by speed of rotation of an electric motor.

    This is some what simialr to the breakthrough feature of the Halogen Drive itself, whose gear reduction
    feature is controlled by speed of an electric motor.

Formula 1 2015

   Formula 1 racing 2015 is sheduled to introduce larger KERS and compulsory electric propulsion down pit lanes.

   We have the HDA KERS to meet the KERS challenge, and plastic version of the magnetic pulse detonation wave engine
   world's best electric motor to satisfy any Formula 1 aspiring team. We also have the Halogen Drive to
   make smooth mixing of electric power and engine power in an F1 car as well as smooth continious
   variable reduction within the Halogen Drive that allows the engine to operate at maximum efficiency at all times
   without sudden changes experienced in gear shifting operations. Contact: research@enemygadgets.com.

Wafer Thin Harmonic Drive

Status: Mechanical design researched and developed, acrylic working protypes available

   The main design feature of this drive is its thin make up and low manufacturing cost.
     The wafer thin harmonic drive is built from 5 layers of sheet material such as brass or steel.
     The sheet material is stamped out (or laser cut), stacked and then reamed for volume production.
     The motor shaft can directly connect to the wafer thin harmonic drive reducing the need for an extra coupling.
     The harmonic drive can be designed to be stackable like a planetary gearbox for higher gear reduction.

     Patent Update

     The preliminary patent search has turned into a very positive report that is likely to result in granting of patent.
     Anyone wishing to invest in this technology can now do so in the knowledge their investment will be protected.

     The flat harmonic drive will bring revolutionary changes to gearbox design. At its simplest it will allow gearboxes
     to be constructed from 5 layers of flat sheets of material. Being flat, they can be cut with laser which eliminates complex
     tooling at a stroke. They can also be puched out for high volume production. This type of gearbox does not require
     complex post processing after machining if used in low speed environments.

     Being a harmonic drive, they are nearly impossible to reverse drive which is important for robot arms.
     If power is cut, the robot arm will not reverse the drive or go forward and drop its load. The same requirement exists with
     lifting motors to lift cargo, elevator motors, and motors for cranking large civil structures such as bridges.
     An elevator for example could drive on an electricfied rack and if power is cut, there is no chance the motor will reverse
     and fall.

     The gearboxes can be etched with foil material to make exceptionally powerful micro harmonic drive gearboxes routinely.
     Mass produced complete gearboxes with 1mm size are within simple reach.
     Below 0.1mm is also within reach if photolithography is used. Partners are actively sought with decent manufacturing
     facilities to get this technology out into the market place as rapidly as possible.

    Exhibition

    The 5 layer wafer thin harmonic drive invention has won a place to exhibit at the Innovate 2013 event.
    We will be exhibiting the 5 layer harmonic drive at stand C36 on 12, March, 2013.
    See you at the show.

    Exhibition Summary

    A big thanks to all the visitors!!
    On demonstration was a workable large 5 layer flat harmonic drive with integral planetary drive, a working small
    5 layer 100mm transparent harmonic drive and parts for 5 layer wafer thin 5mm harmonic drive cut from 0.1mm thick stainless steel.

    The exhibition was a very good place to talk tech to tech engineers.

    The show was good for us with lots of interest from like minded tech engineers who took an active interest.
    The general concensus with engineers is that the field of harmonic drive engineering cannot be as is with the development of this new drive.
    We found a few good exhibitors of various technologies that we intend to use or buy services from.
The greatest surprise was the level of government and civil service related staff who were mingling with the
visitors and who were very keen with relevant advise, and very caring about this class of projects, and trying
    to make sure that all the right next steps are taken. A big thank you everyone who offered their very best advise.

Fractal Robots ^TM

       J. Michael's invention - work still in progress
       The old web site at http://www.ecu.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk is still awaiting rebuild to be added here.

          News: US military research wing DARPA now has entire division dedicated to copying and building fractal robots.
           A large number of clone projects previously funded by DARPA have now grown up and can be found under various headings including "modular robots" * (search www.google.com)
                       [* The academic world has this wrong. It is a meaningless mix of words to label a product a "modular robot" - since even a humble electric toaster is a "modular robot" **.
                        ** A good friend suggests Brickcells as a word to elevate the subject above toasters.]

   (Beware of trolls seeding internet - Trolls have gone to industrial lengths to seed the internet posting tens of thousands of abuse posts and have taken to letter writing to various organizations
          connected with fractal robot research and development. It is an absolute shambles some competitors value this kind of behaviour to get more funding.
          It is also illegal in EU, though not yet in countries like US from where all these troll posts and fake letter writting campaigns had originated.
          For the record, the trolls also managed to get some important meetings with NASA cancelled despite ex-astronauts begging for the decision to be reversed.
          At the time, trolling was a new phenomena and not readily recognised as a problem, nor were there any procedures in place to subject trolls to background checks and security verification.
          Although everyone is now gradually becoming aware of online trolls, and trolls do get jailed, it is still important to keep vigilance because industrial strength trolling has evolved to become
          an unregulated paid industry frequently used by MBAs as a business tool in a most dishonest way.
          One company alone has 100,000 unregulated employees on its payroll to run sustained industrial strength internet trolling campaigns endlessly recycling ropey topics
and supporting each other's trolls purely for monetary gain, all paid for entirely by MBAs that value its continued and dishonest daily use.
          Today, the situation is so bad, that for every web page that gets written by a reputable journalist or a web content creator, some 50 to 200 troll posts infect the internet about it with negative content.)

Fractal Operating System^TM

        The Fractal Operating System^TM is unlike any operating system before it, in that it is designed to run on fractal hardware and as such the operating system is fractal like its underlying hardware.
This is the invisible half of the fractal robot hardware that has been talked about but not published due to lack of time and lack of hardware.
It is radically different to everything mentioned in this time line http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-reconfiguring_modular_robot
        Fractal robot project has been put into stealth mode for a while until the OS and costs related to manufacturing fractal robots have been brought under control.

        The Fractal Robot Operating System is truly revolutionary and no one has made anything similar to it in the years that have gone by.

        Some of its key features:

    1. The OS and its programs form a system that can execute more decisions per second than clock cycles available in a CPU.
        2. The system has algorithm for sorting that requires n cycles for n numbers (the algorithm is faster than all algorithms mentioned in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort )
    3. The system has algorithms for mathematical operations that require n cycles for n numbers to implement set union, set intersection, select distinct, select non-distinct functions.
        4. CPUs can emulate all the functions needed to implement a Fractal OS, but it is better to add new types of instructions in hardware and new programming
             language structures that take advantage of Fractal OS software and its features.
        5. All programs are self similar in construction at all scales.
        6. Programs are AI friendly and deal in concepts, ideas and decisions instead of solely on numeric operations.
        7. Programs can be written in such a way they can explain what it is that they are doing at every decision making non-sequential multi-tasking, multi-threading,
and multi-CPU tasking debugging operations very simple to follow.
        8. Programs can be written in such a way they can be auto piloted every step of the way to help with debugging in ways not possible with conventional programming.
        9. There is a uncertainty over filesystems and formatting. No one formats RAM so why should hard disks be formatted? It is highly likely that Fractal OS file systems are not going to be formatted.
            That will be a catastrophic compatibility breaker but it is ESSENTIAL for the greater good of a Fractal OS over competing OSes.
        10. Within Fractal OS ideas, there is an issue with the way the MMU are presently built, and an issue with us having to use them and program them in the ways we are told.
Since random read access to memory tops out at 10MHz, and CPUs are running at 1GHz,+
               it is rapidly becoming impossible to quantify what benefits there are in having MMUs, or building an OS around the limitations of MMUs.
   It may be better to have DMA doing all the file transfers and software doing the caching and MMU functions through the DMA controller such that the cacheing and MMU
               functions than can be made application specific. Software will be a lot faster than MMU controller to adapt to the data and the operating environment.
               Software can be programmed to know when page boundaries are about to be crossed to go do something else that doesn't require that page
               to change. Such functionality and its numerous variants are too hard to implement in hardware, but can be realized in software. Particularly software that runs
               many more decisions per clock cycle than the clock cycles available in the CPU. WIth memory topping out at 10MHz, and CPU running at 1GHz, it is possible
               to make 1000 decisions with Fractal OS software before 1 churn of a page in DRAM. That makes blind reliance on existing MMU hardware architecture an outdated concept for a Fractal OS.
        11. Combining features 1, 2, 9 and 10, a fractal OS running on 1GHz CPU would probably be able to find a random file, put a file lock on it, open it, update a couple of bytes, close it, and free the lock at least a million times a second
               if the files were kept in RAM.
               If the file objects are scattered throughout RAM because they are constructed from virtual memory segments, then almost a similar number of file operations can be also be achieved despite added complexity.
               Such features would put the Fractal OS light years ahead of competing operating systems.
        12. Making a custom Fractal OS compatible CPU would be simpler and faster than utilizing RISC and CISC CPUs. It requires no changes to the fabrication technology. The underlying
               mechanisms can be upgraded with new architecture that encourages hardware to function using features in item 1 above making the total number of operations per second far exceed the
               the figures that typical embedded CPUs can ahieve without necessarily increasing clock speed or paralleling up hardware that leads to excessive heat and power wastage.
        13. The assembler structures for Fractal OS compatible CPU is similar to C++, unlike all other CPUs which are C like.

        The down side is that it is 4 times as complex to write software in this new framework because the ideas behind Fractal OS are related to how state machines work.
        But this OS could make a big impact in financial trading software where gaining milliseconds counts, mobile phone back end management software where there are billions of transactions to report on,
embedded control software, AI software, and software for electromechanical systems such as robots, "modular robots", "swarm robots" and Fractal Robots.
        The ideas of Fractal OS have been put into practice - its already working in this video (where a PIC24HJ256GP206 generates 17 servo signals in real time using software, and it can
        store 3 hours of unique acting functions within its 256K of internal memory.) The servo 17 PWM signals are generated by software (not hardware) and in real time. As well
        as all the animations calculated in real time.

Emulating the Fractal OS programming structures in C is a big kludge. (The new programming techniques cry out for a new programming language to make it work more efficiently.)
Because the assebler is using C++ constructs, nothing found in old high level language programming text books are sacred because
everything in those books are explained and implemeted in C constructs, whereas Fractal OS compiler will generate everything in C++ assembler constructs.
[The generated machine code wants C++ constructs. There is no artificial layer in the compiler or microcode converting C++ assembler constructs to C like constructs for the CPU.]
    This is a big deal breaker. Even the humble printf() can never be efficiently ported to this new language as is.
        Concepts like printf() have to be completely rewritten to be compatible. This is all a catastrophic deal breaker for portability, but absolutely ESSENTIAL for the greater good.

        Fractal OS is not completely ready to de-cloak until Fractal Robots are ready.
       There has been an incredible array of problems that had to be solved and they now appear to be solved
        and awaiting developer time to get each of the work items done.

Stellar Drive Engine

Open Sourced Project