Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 187 The Predicament of Intelligent Robots
What Zhong Cheng is most worried about now is the intelligent robot project, which has invested the most R&D personnel, but it is also the most difficult.

There are many technical difficulties that need to be overcome!
He went directly to Zhao Wei's office. Zhao Wei is the leader of this project and knows the progress of the research and development best.

When Zhong Cheng knocked on the door and entered, Zhao Wei and Fan Chengjun were sitting in front of Guangnao with sad faces and staring at each other.

"Good morning, Director!"

Fan Chengjun quickly stood up and saluted, Zhao Wei nodded to Zhong Cheng as a greeting.

After the scale of Zhong Cheng's research and development team expanded, his position in the research and development institute was also promoted to the director of the special research and development team.

In fact, this position is a bit nondescript, more like a position specially tailored for Zhong Cheng.

Because the research and development scope of his R&D team is too broad, and his authority is very large, which cannot be matched by the existing management model of the R&D institute.

"Old Zhao, have you encountered a problem?"

Zhong Cheng didn't care about Zhao Wei's attitude, he and the old members have always been very casual.

Zhao Wei is responsible for the development of the core control program in the intelligent robot project. It can be said that whether the intelligent robot is "intelligent" depends on his ability.

Zhao Wei took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes, touched the sofa with his fingers, and signaled Zhong Cheng to sit down and talk.

Fan Chengjun made another cup of tea for Zhong Cheng.

"We thought it was simple at first!"

When Zhao Weiwei opened his mouth, Zhong Cheng's heart sank.

"Be specific!"

Zhong Cheng has been busy with the Xihai project for a while, and he really doesn't care enough about the intelligent robot project.

Zhao Weidao: "You are clear about the three elements of an intelligent robot. The first sensory element is fine. Li Mei has already worked out the relevant sensing system."

"There are no problems including vision, hearing, touch, smell, proximity, balance, force, etc. They use infrared, ultrasonic, laser, chemical sensors and other technologies to accurately transmit the external information that the robot can feel to the robot. Bring it to your mind."

Zhong Cheng nodded, "Very good!"

Zhao Wei continued: "Actually, the second element of movement and the third element of thinking are the same thing. They are both reacting to external information. The latter's so-called thinking is the process of reacting."

"That's the truth!" Zhong Cheng agreed with this statement.

Zhao Wei spread his hands helplessly, "But it's the procedural processing of the reaction that stumps us."

Zhong Cheng asked in surprise:
"How could it be? Isn't it just to design the possible reactive actions in advance, store them in the onboard optical brain, and then choose to execute them according to the specific external information. For you, it shouldn't be difficult!"

Zhao Wei smiled wryly: "I thought so too at the time, but during the design process I found out that's not the case!"

"For example, in our most advanced Nuwa industrial mother machine, the Cangjie CNC system needs to control at most a dozen drive shafts and a dozen knives in conjunction with each other."

"However, in the motion system of the robot, it is necessary to deal with a dynamic system with 21 large degrees of freedom, more than 200 small degrees of freedom, and more than 600 actuators."

"Realize real-time 'simple' sports functions such as weight bearing, standing, walking, running, uphill and downhill, and avoiding obstacles."

Zhong Cheng was amazed, what you designed is still a robot, it is a human!

There are more than 600 actuators, which take into account the bones, muscles, joints, and tendons of the human body. Is it necessary?

Seeing Zhong Cheng's bewildered expression, Zhao Wei added a few words, but obviously misunderstood Zhong Cheng's doubts.

"If you still can't understand the difficulty of this, next time you can try to help a drunk man home, you will find that walking 50 meters consumes more energy than controlling your body to walk 5000 meters. "

"In the face of such a motion system, even if you find the world's top team of cybernetics experts and dozens of super Fuxi optical computers, you can't design an alternative control scheme."

Speaking of this, Zhao Wei sighed: "We humans are not only able to do these things well, but also only use a small part of our brains. While doing this, we can make calls, watch short videos, and greet passers-by..."

"The human brain is truly amazing!"

"Hey, Old Zhao, don't just lament, find a way to solve it!"

Zhong Cheng had to interrupt Zhao Wei, the intelligent robot project cannot be abandoned halfway.

Zhao Wei pointed at Fan Chengjun, "Tell me, what I just mentioned is only one of the problems, and there are many more."

Fan Chengjun was about to stand up again, but Zhong Cheng stopped him and asked him to sit down and talk.

"Director, in addition to the movement control problem that Master just mentioned, there are two big problems that cannot be solved for the time being!"

"Well, tell me!"

Zhong Cheng said calmly, in fact, his heart was beating drums, he didn't know how to solve the problem just now, there are two more?

Fan Chengjun said: "One problem is that the amount of data collected in real time in the robot's optical brain is too large, and the processing is too slow. It is basically impossible to achieve real-time response."

Fuck!If you can't respond in real time, what a fart!

Zhong Cheng was anxious, "How big is the data volume?"

Fan Chengjun scratched his head and said, "For example, if you are watching a football match, the resolution of the scene in the robot vision sensor under design is about [-] million pixels, which is equivalent to the resolution of human eyes. Rate."

"Compressing this video for one hour is about 10GB. According to the calculation of the world seen by the eyes of the robot, one hour is 1TB of data, and the amount of data is at least 10TB per day."

"And this is only the data that the robot sees. The data it hears, touches, and touches add up to more than 50TB of data every day."

"After a week, a month, or a year, the stored data is unimaginable, and important data must be automatically compressed, deduplicated, and backed up. It can be randomly extracted, extracted by scene, and extracted by feature. The airborne optical brain is simply not competent. Such real-time processing work."

Just as Zhong Cheng wanted to speak, he was interrupted by Zhao Wei.

"Don't think about reducing the accuracy of the sensor to reduce the amount of data. This is already the minimum. No matter how low the accuracy is, even a face cannot be recognized. What is the use of such a robot?"

Am I trying to say this?
That's me, otherwise Lao Zhao's EQ is worrying!

Zhong Cheng said helplessly, "Xiao Fan, what's the next question?"

Fan Chengjun looked at Zhao Wei carefully, and said, "There is also the recognition of human language. It is very difficult for a robot to understand 'human language'!"

"Um?!"

Zhong Cheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Fan Chengjun's reaction was that there was no silver 300 taels here. Fortunately, Zhao Wei didn't respond.

However, it would be strange for him to react!

(End of this chapter)