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Engineering Cybernetics
Eleanor Cole
And
Frank Conover
What is cybernetics?
“Cybernetics” comes from a Greek word meaning “the art of steering”
About having a goal and taking actions to achieve that goal
Involves a feedback system Began in natures, was referenced by Plato
and made popular by Norbert Wiener
What is engineering cybernetics?
Established by H.S. Tsien Sub-field of cybernetics Used to control and predict behavior of
certain systems like mechatronic and chemical
Is an engineering science
The Purpose of Engineering Cybernetics
To study the parts of cybernetics with direct applications in designing controlled or guided systems
The 1960s - Technology
“Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation” - Norbert Wiener– Machines had become very effective and even
dangerous. – Game Playing
“War Games”
– Artificial Intelligence “Terminator” - Skynet
The 1960s - Consequences
New man-machine relationship– Apollo, Cuban Missile Crisis, Computers
Blurring of the boundary between machine and organism– Cybernetics, Systems Theory, Intelligent
Computers
Threaten the existence of humans– Hydrogen Bomb
The Cyborg
A cybernetic organism has both artificial and natural systems.– Fictional
“The Six Million Dollar Man”
– Real Prosthetics Feedback: a prosthetic leg, may have sensors to aid in
walking
Cyborgs are Safe
Concerns over automation, replacement of workers, and unemployment.
Master and slave reversing, malfunctions, technology out of control.
US astronaut John Glenn: “Let man take over!” “2001: A Space Odyssey”
Asimov first law of Robotics– A robot may not injure human beings. “I,Robot”
Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine
Possibly the climax of Engineering Cybernetics in the 1960s.
A gigantic cyborg robot that moved by following the movement of the human inside of it.
General Electric's Schenectady plant 11 feet tall, 3,000 pounds, four-legs Feedback System Prototype of more advanced systems being built
such as Military Exoskeleton – super soldier.
Suspicion
In spite of such achievements technology continues to scare people.
Considered more threatening than promising. Avatar - Amplified Mobility Platform "AMP"
Suit
CAM - 1969 AMP - 2154
Cybernetics Today
Concepts and origins of cybernetics are being revisited
Lack of success with AI has lead to greater curiosity as towards what a brain does, and views on the biology of cognition
Designers are rediscovering the needs for rigorous models of goals, interactions, and systems limitations
Cybernetics Today (cont)
Notable figures in the development of modern cybernetics are Norbert Wiener, William Ashby, and Warren McCulloch
It is an important subject in many academic and scientific fields
Questions? Comments?
Sources
http://www.pangaro.com/published/cyber-macmillan.html http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v7n3/hong.html http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/
0,9171,900752,00.html http://cyberneticzoo.com/?tag=quadruped-walking-machine http://www.ehow.com/about_5185625_history-cybernetics.html
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