Mechanical sequential counting with liquid marbles

Draper, Thomas; Fullarton, Claire; Phillips, Neil; de Lacy Costello, Ben; Adamatzky, Andrew

Abstract

© 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature. Here we demonstrate the first working example of a liquid marble-operated sequential binary counting device. We have designed a lightweight gate that can be actuated by the low mass and momentum of a liquid marble. By linking a number of these gates in series, we are able to digitally count up to binary 1111 (upper limit only by our requirements). Using liquid marbles in such a system opens up new avenues of research and design, by way of modifying the coating and/or core of the liquid marbles, and thereby giving extra dimensions for calculation (e.g. a calculation that takes into consideration the progress of a chemical reaction inside a liquid marble). In addition, the new gate design has multiple uses in liquid marble rerouting.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Acceptance Date: May 1, 2018
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Jun 21, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 6, 2018
• Journal: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
• Print ISSN: 0302-9743
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 10867 LNCS
• Pages: 59-71
• Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Book Title: Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92435-9_5
• Keywords: liquid marble, unconventional computing, binary counter, logic gate, particle-coated droplets, mechanical computing
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/867473
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92435-9_5
• Additional Information: Additional Information : This is the accepted version of the paper. The final version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92435-9_5
• Contract Date: Jun 21, 2018