Chapter 2150: Re-enacting the cool technology in the movie
"In fact, most of the time we have spent on this project in the past few years has been researching this technology.
To be honest, it is really difficult. We have studied dozens of technologies, but all failed without exception. In reality, it is really difficult to take into account both aspects at the same time.
And just when our research reached its peak and could no longer continue, one of our researchers suddenly came up with a new idea.
Why do we have to replicate the technology in the movie? Now that we understand how it works, why can't we redesign a tiny nanorobot."
Design it yourself? Zhang Jun asked doubtfully.
Zhou Yonghui nodded and replied: "Yes, design it yourself. Use our existing technology and the technology we can overcome to make a new intelligent micro-robot."
First of all, we redesigned its appearance and size. Its size in the movie was too small, its capabilities were limited, and it was not easy to design and develop. So we enlarged its appearance and size. The redesigned volume and appearance
The size is roughly the same as the length of our index and middle fingers.
In addition, we abandoned the original three-body separated structure and directly designed the three-body separated structure of the micro nanorobot in the movie into a connected whole.
The redesigned intelligent micro-robot is also divided into three parts, with two mechanical arms on both sides, about two to three centimeters in length, and a universal drive joint in the middle.
This universal drive joint can flexibly rotate, bend, turn, etc. It is very flexible, has a reliable structure, and has considerable strength.
In the short robotic arms on both sides, there are hidden intelligent control systems, signal transmission systems, power systems and other parts. In order to ensure its strong endurance, we equipped it with our most advanced super solid-state battery
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With the support of super solid-state batteries, its single intelligent micro-robot can have a standby working time of up to two weeks. If it is a high-intensity operation in a cluster joint mode, it can also run continuously for six or seven hours.
There is a caliper connection device on each of the two sections of the two robotic arms. After encountering other intelligent micro-robots, they will automatically connect together according to the system control requirements and form a multi-joint structure robot. And multiple groups
, multiple such intelligent micro-robots are arranged and combined in an orderly manner to form a large-scale intelligent micro-robot cluster combination like the one in the movie.
After solving the technical bottleneck of a single intelligent micro-robot, we still need to solve another problem, which should even be said to be our specialty, which is cluster array control technology.
This should be said to be our special skill, but we didn't expect that this time, it would overturn under our strongest technology.
Our cluster array control technology uses a set of decentralized cluster control technology to connect multiple units and then connect them organically, and connect all individual systems together to form a huge decentralized system.
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This huge system can uniformly control the entire cluster, and can accurately control the individual. Even if some individuals are lost, the entire cluster will not collapse, and the command will only weaken its system computing performance.
Theoretically, this decentralized cluster array control technology should have no quantity limit. In reality, we have also achieved extreme experiments with tens of thousands of drones flying together, and achieved very ideal experimental results.
However, we have encountered very difficult problems when it comes to this kind of intelligent micro-robots and their cluster array combinations.
First of all, the number is naturally small. Although we have experimented with tens of thousands of UAV cluster arrays flying in combination, problems have arisen when applied to this.
And we have to control far more intelligent micro-robots than these tens of thousands. With so many intelligent micro-robots, it is far more difficult to arrange them together in an orderly manner according to our own intentions.
Flying tens of thousands of drones is much harder.
To put it simply, there are theoretically countless arrangements and combinations of these intelligent micro-robots. So how do we realize the infinite changes in the combination of these intelligent micro-robots? This also requires the use of artificial intelligence algorithms.
A single intelligent micro-robot is very small, and the hardware it can accommodate is very limited. After being equipped with an intelligent control system, its computing power is very limited. Even if they are arranged and combined together, its computing power cannot be that high.
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For example, the computing power of a cluster array system composed of 10,000 intelligent micro-robots is not comparable to that of a 32-core computer.
It is very difficult and strenuous to process such huge data operations with such limited computing power. If the computing power is not enough and the operations are not processed in time, there will be control lags. Maybe we issue instructions here,
It will take several seconds, even ten seconds, or several minutes before the intelligent micro-robot over there will respond, thus losing its original value.
Therefore, we need to increase the computing power of a single intelligent micro-robot and increase its data information processing capabilities by dozens or even hundreds of times, so that we can meet our requirements.
Therefore, we need to start from the lower level, such as the processor chip in the hardware. We also need to design it in a targeted manner. The original single chip can no longer meet our needs, but what if we arrange multiple processor chips?
It will take up space. So we used a new chip manufacturing process, which is to stack multiple chips together to form a multi-layer chip structure, which we call a Rubik's Cube.
The computing power of this kind of chip is hundreds or thousands of times that of different previous chips. Of course, with such a large computing power, there will naturally be some drawbacks and problems. For example, its special structure will cause problems when computing at full load.
Generates a large amount of heat. This heat will directly affect the computing performance of the chip, and even large amounts of heat may even burn the chip.
Therefore, it needs to be cooled down during operation. But how to cool down such a chip in such a small structure is also a headache for us.
In addition, a large number of intelligent micro-robots are arranged and combined together. How to connect the systems of these intelligent micro-robots in an orderly manner is also a technical problem that we need to study.
It is obviously not possible to use the wireless connection technology of traditional drones. It can only be used as an auxiliary duty, and the transmission speed is relatively slow, so a new transmission method is necessary.
Therefore, we set up an interface at the position where the two sections of the intelligent micro-robot are connected to the caliper. During the connection, the data interface will also be connected at the same time, and data exchange and transmission will be carried out through the line, thus improving its data transmission and computing efficiency and improving its overall performance."