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Digital Systems Teaching and Research (DSTR) Robot: A Flexible Platform for Education and Applied Research
The DSTR (pronounced “Disaster”) robot has a strong history of being adaptable to different user’s needs, and there are many opportunities ahead that indicate that the sky, quite literally, is not the limit for this robust platform. This paper provides a historical perspective on the development of the DSTR robot as a collaborative design developed by the Mobile Integrated Solutions Laboratory (MISL) at Texas A&M University and ASEP 4X4 Inc. Texas Instruments has been a major partner in the integration of the control electronics, and Texas Space Technology Applications and Research (T STAR) LLC has played a significant role in the propagation of the DSTR robot as an adaptable applied research/education/STEM outreach platform. The paper will present examples of the strong industry-academic relationships that allow the DSTR robot to be utilized in a multitude of experiential learning environments. In addition to a number of STEM outreach activities, the DSTR robots are being used in the Introduction to Engineering course at Blinn College and in the Freshman Engineering curriculum at Texas A&M University. DSTRs have also been selected by NASA scientists as a low-cost lunar sample collector. The paper will also discuss the newly developed DSTR-E (DSTR Engineering) unit which requires students to perform several engineering tasks during the build process. The paper will also include the lessons learned from initial design through its transfer to the private sector for commercialization and future plans.Cockrell School of Engineerin
Negative Energy, Superluminosity and Holography
The holographic connection between large Super Yang Mills theory and
gravity in anti deSitter space requires unfamiliar behavior of the SYM theory
in the limit that the curvature of the AdS geometry becomes small. The
paradoxical behavior includes superluminal oscillations and negative energy
density. These effects typically occur in the SYM description of events which
take place far from the boundary of AdS when the signal from the event arrives
at the boundary. The paradoxes can be resolved by assuming a very rich
collection of hidden degrees of freedom of the SYM theory which store
information but give rise to no local energy density. These degrees of freedom,
called precursors, are needed to make possible sudden apparently acausal energy
momentum flows. Such behavior would be impossible in classical field theory as
a consequence of the positivity of the energy density. However we show that
these effects are not only allowed in quantum field theory but that we can
model them in free quantum field theory.Comment: Expanded version replacing earlier hep-th/990218
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