1. General information about regularities of TS development The evolution of technologies, machinery and products (technical systems, or TS) is influenced by many factors, in particular, current felt-needs of society, objective level of scientific and technological progress, availability and level of competition, etc. However, since second half of 19th century, scientists began to notice that process of TS improvement is exposed to influence of certain laws and regularities. Initially mechanisms and trends of technical progress were subject of philosophical research. Then these studies acquired applied nature, focused primarily at developing of heuristic forecasting tools, allowing to choose effective ways to search new design and technology solutions to advance competitors and optimize expenditures. These studies resulted in identification of a number of universal laws of TS development, among which law of stage development of TS and law of progressive evolution of TS are most well-known. The application of these laws is mostly related to determination of most probable avenues for TS development and strategic decision-making when designing TS. In recent decades scientists are increasingly engaged in identification and formulation of regularities of development of machinery, technology, and products (i.e. TS). Regularities of TS development represent ascertained consistent trends of incremental changes in performance specifications or structure of TS, leading to improvement of their consumer qualities. Significant contribution to study of TS development laws was made by Soviet researchers in second half of XX century. The basis of today's knowledge about these laws was laid by works of G. S. Altshuller, Yu. S. Meleschenko, E. P. Balashov, A. F. Kamenev, A. I. Polovinkin, and S. S. Tovmasyan. Among foreign studies on TS development laws works of D. Mann, G. Linde and P. Hill are mentioned most frequently. Currently, TS development laws are recommended to be studied as a section of TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) by specialists of Russian and foreign organizations (Russian TRIZ Association, International TRIZ Association, The Altshuller Institute, The TRIZ-Journal, Association Mexicana de TRIZ, etc.) [1-6]. Regularities of TS development have a great potential for applications in innovative activity, since they suggest developers not only promising areas to search for new solutions, but often--specific, associatively-hued new solutions, having new competitive properties in comparison with their counterparts. For example, several decades ago, regularity of TS development (improvement of consumer qualities), when changing geometrical adjectives of mechanical contact of objects (contact of TS with a person, environment or other TS), was described in a logical sequence point--line--surface--space. An example of demonstration of ground vehicles development regularity (when increasing speed and/or off-road performance) is shown in Fig.1. Professor V.V. Popov formulated a generalized description of this regularity allowing to predict possibility of implementing previously undescribed intermediate development stages: the TS development regularity, in case of changing geometrical adjectives of mechanical contact of a person or TS with environment or another TS, which consists in fact that development of TS occurs through increase in number of contact points, and number of contact points converge from one point to infinity (continuous contact), and contact configuration complicates from evenly or unevenly spaced points, geometrically correct and then becoming incorrect solid or broken lines, turned further into two-dimensional or three-dimensional surfaces [7]. …