Abstract
By illustrating tiny YAMAHA helicopters, which are automatic, non-man drive and sold more than 1100, as an example, the author tries to show the difference of the ways of research and development in US and in Japan. With other three examples, he gives a suggestion for modification of the definition of smart structures, which were given by C.A. Rogers and B.K. Wada[1–2], for fitting them to these examples. In the modification he would like to call even a machine which has only one of the functions stated in the definitions as smart machine. By this modification he expects that the concept of smart structures will spread more widely and this movement will promote the intellectualization of wide variety of machines.
Volume Subject Area:
Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Design
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