Physical Computing Design Tools

Description

Repository for DICE design tools explorations.

Topics include:

• Programming strategies for spacial computing
  • Data flow programming and Distributed Deep Neural Networks
  • Physics Simulation
  • Trusted Systems
• Reconfiguration strategies for DICE pieces
  • CAM tools and path planing:
    • Desktop (external) assembler
    • Swarm assembly and manipulation

Demo Links

• "Physical Computing Interface" demo lives here.
• "Performance Calculation Graph" demo lives here.
• Distributed Deep Neural Networks
• UR10 voxel Assembly demo.

Progress

Applications

• The idea is to find an application that needs reconfiguration white running, examples:
  • Gamalon probabilistic programming
  • more computing power while assembling voxels
  • Neural Networks?

Voxel Simulation

Probabilistic Programming

• Gamalon
• Using Dice pieces to do inference
  • in order to find the best configuration based on its performance
  • other tasks
• WebPPL: probabilistic programming for the web
• Probabilistic Graphical Models

Capabilities and Updates

• Design
  • Parametric grid definition (cubic, hexagonal, dice)
• Assembly/timeline
  • Timeline for future morphing computing
  • UR10
• Graph
  • Hierarchy
  • Automatic neighborhood
  • highlights
• Computing
  • Asynchronous code propagation (distributed max example)
  • Simple test case find max value distributed
  • Min cut max flow concept study neighborhood
• Improved UI and integration
  • Radial menu
  • Json propagation
  • Highlight selected node

Desired Milestones

• Assembly
  • Swarm construction
• Computation
  • Morphing code
  • Real simulation/message passing analysis
  • Computation Optimization
    • Restructuring code and automatically divide into distributed
    • show alternatives and bottlenecks
• Auto compilation/export to dice modules
• Simulation portal
• Case Studies
  • Neural networks
  • Bayesian optimization
  • Distributed optimization
  • Voxel design
• Scaling
  • stress testing scaling

TODOS:

• Grid Systems
• Documentation
  • in depth documentation of how to do everything
• Reset Grid/button
• Assembly
  • fix errors
• Add real Dice info
  • computation delay and communaction cost
  • CAD?
• Select
  • improve selected visualization
  • when selecting group show bounding box
• Hierarchy
  • place multiple voxels
  • change code of mutiple voxels
  • select multiple dice pieces
  • create groups