Chapter 359 Dreaming College

"Tell me about it, don't make me read it from the beginning." Professor Yan had a headache looking at the pile in front of him. This student is really a genius. Reading what he writes is sometimes a kind of torture, so it's better to listen to what he writes. The song is comfortable.

"Well, it can be roughly divided into several directions. In fact, I can't even understand it. I'm not as good as you. But Wang Xu has divided it into categories from the beginning. Just look at the cover.

You see, this pile is for you to focus on, about robots. He said that there are some achievements in servo motors, but the accuracy has not yet been achieved, and it has not yet been mass-produced, so it has to wait, but if you are willing to spend money, it is not impossible to buy one, and it does not need to be so precise in the beginning.

And the robot chip has to wait, but the algorithm can be advanced first. He mentioned several types, such as multi-axis robotic arms, suspended mechanical platforms, two-wheel self-balancing platforms, four-legged platforms, bipedal walking platforms, etc. , there are even water platforms and flying platforms.

He said that these things should be of interest to you. You can pick two to study and leave a few for the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Harbin Institute of Technology. They had greeted Wang Xu last time.

In fact, you already have the core of the algorithm. Professor Luo is an expert. He has already done it quite deeply, but his computing power cannot keep up.

Now you can drag a bunch of lines and use the computing power of the server. Later, when high-level chips are available, you can then find a way to reduce the size. Let’s first check whether they are available. "Director Jiang explained it in detail.

"Does he have any suggestions?" Professor Yan knew Wang Xu very well. This guy was not completely impartial. Instead of thinking about it on his own, it was better to listen to him.

"His suggestion is that if you want to create a gimmick, then go for a bipedal one. If you want to get some results quickly, then go for the robot dog first, which is a four-legged platform. Leave the rest depending on what you like. Give them all away." Director Jiang repeated Wang Xu's words. This is Wang Xu's natal home and his base camp, and he is here to help him look after the house.

Wang Xu had already introduced the plan of his laboratory to him. In the early stage, he focused on three aspects: basic theory of artificial intelligence, numerical control automation and four-axis drones. Professor Luo was mainly responsible for the work on artificial intelligence.

The research on basic numerical control algorithms is still waiting for researchers to report on it. The department has newly recruited a doctor who studied abroad and graduated from MIT, but he will not be able to start his job until the end of the year.

The research on the four-axis flight algorithm is in cooperation with the Imperial Aviation Academy, so the current laboratory here is mainly used by Professor Luo. It is more like a computer room than a laboratory.

"Okay, hey, let's just pick first. Is there anything else?" Professor Yan felt a bit like Li Yunlong, who couldn't walk when he saw good things. Oh, by the way, this movie hasn’t been shot yet.

"There is also the Yuntai project, do you want to get involved? Yuzhuo said I don't know if I should trouble you. This is Wang Xu's sole investment. It is probably an investment and commissioned development model. It should not be open source, nor The profit is divided and used on the drone, and he uses it to make movies.”

"What's the trouble with this, gimbal? It's that kind of self-stabilizing platform, right? I think I heard him mention it. This thing is not difficult. Now he has laid all the foundations, except for the control chip. It's easy to do, and everything else is fine.

I guess he is also waiting for the supercomputer chipset, and leaves the rest to us.

It is much better to help this kid make money than to help others. Can the paper be published? "Professor Yan is quite interesting. He knows that Wang Xu sometimes works on some projects for his own use, and he also knows that they have cooperated with Imperial University of Technology on some small projects.

"There is definitely nothing wrong with the paper, but these things are not internationally leading. I don't know what to publish, and I don't know much about it.

It seems that papers have been published on algorithms and so on, and they all seem to be open source. "Director Jiang understands Wang Xu's habits, and the paper can definitely be published.

"I know the algorithm. There are open source projects, but it's still different. That one is automatic control of multi-links. This one is a little more complicated." When it comes to this, Professor Yan is an expert.

The multi-link thing was also developed by Wang Xu. It is a dynamic balance system that is put into the open source community for everyone to play with. The current open source version can already keep three connecting rods from falling over.

This thing was also done by Shuimu. The graduation thesis of a certain doctor had little to do with Wang Xu. On the contrary, this direction was the idea that Wang Xu helped come up with.

"I don't know. If you want to do it, just stay. It's a lot of money. Wang Xu has invested hundreds of thousands." Director Jiang took out a stack of information and handed it to Professor Yan.

"What does he plan to do with this thing? You didn't report it to the police?" Professor Yan was very surprised. He could see the effect of this thing. Adding a few more degrees of freedom would allow him to control too many things.

Even if it is not increased, the launching platform of the small flying stick can be changed to a follow-up one.

"I have reported it to you a long time ago. When you come up with it, you will be given bonuses by the superiors. Now it has been established as a system. It has not yet been written down. However, the superiors have also discovered the benefits of military-civilian integration and plan to reform it."

"Let me just say, there is no reason why the higher-ups don't know."

"Now the main thing is to develop the economy. When we get new things, most of them are saved first. I have made many new things with the things you provided, but it is too expensive and still too poor." Director Jiang said with emotion, unlike Ivory Professor Yan in the tower obviously knows more about the country's situation.

"I'm not a military fan, and I don't know much about it. I just heard Wang Xu say a lot. This guy is a complete military fan, and everything can be related to military struggles." Professor Yan was honest and admitted directly. Little is known about this aspect.

"Oh? Tell me, what did he talk about?" Director Jiang was interested in all of Wang Xu's words and deeds. This guy can sometimes see trends based on very small things, and this grasp of trends is the so-called strategic sensitivity, which is extremely important in the military.

Of course, if Wang Xu was here, he would definitely be speechless. It's not that he is sensitive, it's just based on the future.

"Not much, wait a minute, I'll look for it. I also wrote down a lot of conversations with Wang Xu. You know, I'm over 40, and my brain is not so good. Many times after talking to him, I will go back and sort it out." Professor Yan took out a notebook and explained while flipping through it.

This is the habit of people of this era, especially intellectuals, to carry a pen and a notebook with them. The pen in the chest pocket was once a label for intellectuals.

Until many years later in the Internet era, many old people still retain this habit. No matter how convenient their mobile phones are, they still retain the habit of recording with a pen.

Of course, there are also many stories of formalism derived from this, such as the weird thing criticized by a certain writer, that is, recording the leader reading the original text of a certain document at a meeting.

"Look, the quadcopter is a future guerrilla warfare artifact. I don't quite understand what he meant by artifact, but it is undoubtedly an important weapon." Professor Yan turned to a certain page, pointed to his record and said to Director Jiang.

He is very humble, but he is actually very sensitive, otherwise he would not have written down such a casual remark.

"Is the quadcopter so important, or is it a guerrilla war?" Director Jiang was also a little puzzled. The quadcopter has a low energy consumption ratio, slow speed, low altitude, and cannot carry too heavy weapons. The key is that the price is not cheap at all.

Wang Xu spent millions of dollars on a quadcopter, which can only carry a dozen kilograms of things for ten minutes and cannot exceed one kilometer. That is, he dared to do so.

"Well, you see, that's what he said at the time.

This thing can be made for a few hundred yuan per machine, and the image can be transmitted three kilometers. It carries half a pound of explosives inside, and it can bypass obstacles and fly over to blow up the soldiers and equipment in the bunker. It is much more useful than a sniper rifle.

If it is a gun tower or something, it can fly directly into the window. If there was this during the Anti-Japanese War, it would be a disaster in minutes.

Haha, that's what he said at the time. You say he didn't go through that era, how could he be so obsessed." Professor Yan recalled the conversation with Wang Xu at that time, thinking it was quite interesting.

That was when Wang Xu cooperated with the Automation Department and the Aviation College, and talked to him afterwards. At that time, he didn't mention what the four-axis was used for, but just said that it was a camera base for filming movies.

The development of this thing is purely civilian, no matter the purpose or the means, it is done by the people. However, when Wang Xu and Professor Yan were having dinner together when they returned to Shuimu, they mentioned it, and Professor Yan wrote it down.

"Such a big plane, and it's so slow, it will be shot down immediately?" Director Jiang hasn't figured out how to use that thing.

"It doesn't need to be that big. He said that after two years of chip technology development, this thing can be as big as the palm of your hand. It's big now, mainly because the computer power required for complex flight control is too high.

He almost had to use the main chips in the workstation to barely be enough, and he had to bring more batteries to power the flight control system. In addition, it needed to support a large camera, so it was naturally quite big.

I don't understand airplanes, but I do understand chips. It can be half the size in a year, and the performance can be doubled. It won't be long before a thumb-sized chip is enough." Professor Yan looked at his notebook and continued to explain. Obviously, he recorded it in great detail.

"It's true. We may have underestimated how important the progress brought by the development of electronic technology is. Everything on the aircraft is linked to each other. The smaller the computing unit, the smaller the power supply.

Therefore, the required load is smaller, and then you don't need such a large motor, and the battery can be small. All things counted, the lightness may not be the weight of the chip." Director Jiang sighed, he is not a professional military engineer.

It's just that I've been following Wang Xu recently, and I've heard more and more things. I have to learn more things, so I seem to be more knowledgeable.

It seems that Wang Xu's remarks need to be remembered in more detail. I'll go back and write a report, and get him and his wife a bodyguard.

"Can I borrow your notebook?" Director Jiang asked politely.

"Why do you think I mentioned this matter? Give it back to me after you've copied it." Professor Yan handed the notebook over with a smile, and then picked up the teacup and watched Director Jiang busy looking for someone to copy it.

He flipped through the materials in front of him.

Just as Director Jiang introduced, these materials are quite mixed, and many of them are just one page. Professor Yan has seen this a lot. These are all projects that Wang Xu suddenly came up with, and often require more research to get results.

In the past, everyone scrambled for the thick ones with detailed plans and routes. Later, there were not enough professors, after all, it was stipulated that one person could only lead a team once.

Therefore, everyone began to scramble for research projects that only had a piece of paper with a general idea and direction. After all, having a direction is actually pretty good. Many researchers in later generations died trying to decide on a direction.

And those thick projects with implementation plans gradually spread according to the choices of other departments, colleges, and schools.

Anyway, they all need to sign an agreement to agree to be included in the unified management and enter the technology pool in the future. It is not so important who signed the contract.

Therefore, the Imperial University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology next door can be said to be close to the water tower. Many such topics have begun to enter their research sequence, and they also adhere to the same principle, that is, each professor can only lead one such topic at most.

This kind of mysterious, almost instruction-like research topic is almost like slapping scientific research results in the face. No one will be stupid enough to expose it, and they will just eat it secretly.

Then after it is completed, they will ask for the topic without a plan with a smug face.

Of course, these operations are also in the eyes of the higher-ups. These universities have also strengthened various audits and inspections. Especially important or sensitive topics still need to pass the hands of the higher-ups.

Some were even confiscated directly, and then the finished products were handed over to Shuimu in a mysterious way one day, such as the paint that can absorb electromagnetic waves, and an electromagnetic wave generating and receiving device called TR unit.

Even the research on micro-mechanics is no longer in Shuimu's hands. It is estimated that they are in a digital research institute. It is also very difficult for them. Many have been closed in recent years. Maybe the project that Wang Xu has worked on can reduce the number of these people.

Shuimu began to gradually engage in basic research under the guidance of Wang Xu. In fact, this is Shuimu's positioning. They are not good at specific engineering and physical research.

It's like there is a picture in the future, which talks about many chief engineers of major national weapons. Shuimu has only one, but the seven sons of national defense have many. This matter caused an uproar on the Internet, and it can even be said that it was the beginning of scolding Shuimu and Imperial University, after all, Imperial University did not have one.

But this matter seemed very normal to Shuimu and Imperial University themselves, because those engineering projects were not their strong points. For example, warships and aircraft, these two universities even split the aviation department to establish the Aviation College, how could they have their chief engineers.

The others are similar. Shuimu is still an engineering department, so there is one to support the scene, and Imperial University is a science department after all, so it is even more impossible to have one.

Wang Xu had a friend in his previous life who told him a story about a person who participated in the development of a fat aircraft and undertook a theoretical study on the design of brake discs under heavy load, high temperature, and strong dust environment.

This thing is a completely bottleneck technology. It can be said that without his research, the short takeoff and landing is a joke. But if you look at the implementation list of the entire project, it is impossible for him to be involved, because he only published a paper, which has nothing to do with the project.

In the final analysis, his main work is to do various theoretical calculations, summarize empirical formulas, make laboratory samples at most, and then do some environmental experiments to verify the correctness of the theory.

When he took the project, he inspected it for a long time. Based on this, he could only guess that the thing was used on a certain landing gear, but he didn't even know what model it was or how many wheels the landing gear had.

Later, people made a finished product based on his paper, which really had nothing to do with him. He didn't even know where and how his paper was used.

It wasn't until the plane appeared on the summer TV that he received a thank-you call, saying that his research was very important.

This can be a story, but it is not entirely a story. The country has a position for universities. Shuimu, Imperial University, and some institutions of Huazhong University of Science and Technology are mostly engaged in basic research. The country needs them to go deeper, not practical.

Just like the legend of the photolithography factory run by Shuimu in later generations, a paper a few years ago was inexplicably dug up and hyped, and it felt like it would be online soon.

But when the paper was published, the professor of Shuimu said that this thing was just a theory of providing extreme ultraviolet light source. Later, he conducted a verification experiment with the university of Hans and verified that it was feasible.

Professor Shuimu's work ended here, and this achievement was enough for him to get a promotion and a raise. As for whether to continue, how to continue, and who will continue, the country will naturally arrange it. But theory is still theory, and it is still a long way from practical.

In this life, with the influence of Wang Xu, this trend may only go deeper, and there may be some practical research, but it is all for making money. And his use of Shuimu is not just to help Shuimu make money, he is the Wang Er of Dongsi.

Just like the same research on electric vehicles, if it is a car factory, it should start with a single motor and a traditional chassis.

If it is an Internet company, it may start from the direction of vehicle-machine interconnection and autonomous driving.

However, the topics arranged by Wang Xu are electromagnetic suspension, wheel-side motor, superconducting shock absorber, energy recovery, multi-axis attitude control, single-wheel independent operation, road perception, integral wheel, multi-sensor fusion, big data analysis, intelligent learning, and other sub-topics.

It requires body integration, functional modularization, communication bus, charging and discharging modularization, interface standardization, vehicle-machine intelligence, and unmanned driving.

When Wang Xu and Director Jiang introduced these projects, they said that these things may be just science fiction dreams, or even pure dreams, and there is no possibility of realization.

But Wang Xu said: "If it is an ordinary university, it doesn't matter if you catch up or imitate.

But we are Shuimu. If we can't lead the Chinese people to dream, who else can we do it?"

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(Sorry, I was away from work for two days and took my daughter out to play. She is only one and a half years old. She hugged your legs and said please, what else can you do?

My daughter is the cutest in the world, I won’t accept any rebuttal)