Smart Industrial Empire

Northeast Institute of Automation, on a stone bench beside the tree-lined path outside the research center building, a middle-aged man and woman were looking at each other, sparks flashed in the eyes of both parties, which was produced by eye contact.

It's not a **** collision!

Please don't think wrong.

This is not the look of young men and women who are in love looking at each other.

Of course, it wasn't the lovers who were about to part ways looking at each other angrily with eyes that wanted to kill each other.

"Junior Sister Deng, if you have something to do, please hurry up and tell me, it's working time!" Qu Daokui looked at Deng Lanqing for a while, but he was still defeated, and he was helpless at this robot he had worked in the Chinese Academy of Sciences for a long time. Said the younger sister who was engaged in robot research in the Open Laboratory.

If there was no Yunfei, there would be no Jiuyi Research Institute, the largest non-governmental comprehensive institute of mechatronics in China. Perhaps in December 1993, as a visiting scholar from the Electronic Technology System Theory Laboratory of Saarland University in Germany, he was engaged in the application of neural networks in robots. After returning from applied research in China, Qu Daokui, who became the director of the robot development department of the Northeast Institute of Automation (National Engineering Research Center for Robotics) in January 12, is already No. 1994 in China's robot research.

Unfortunately, there is no if in the world.

Deng Lanqing's talent in mechanical automation is at least much better than Qu Daokui's.Especially after graduating as a postdoctoral fellow, he entered the Jiuyi Research Institute and followed Sun Lin and Situ Heyun to practice the application of various mechanical automation in numerical control equipment.

Numerical control equipment is the most basic robot, and at the same time, it is also the most high-end robot.It's just that it can't move like a robot.

Intelligent robots with powerful functions are the inevitable direction for the development of CNC equipment.

Although the Chinese Academy of Sciences has a dedicated robotics research laboratory, it does not include related majors such as mechanical automation.Few universities offer courses dedicated to robot design and manufacturing.

At present, in the entire country, only Rongcheng University, which has in-depth cooperation with Jiuyi Research Institute, has opened a robotics major.

"Brother, I need your help..." Highly educated women who are engaged in scientific research often have a kind of intellectual beauty that makes people palpitate.

However, this intellectual beauty cannot be seen in Deng Lanqing.

Many people in Jiuyi Heavy Industry are wondering if Deng Lanqing is a woman.

A typical woman paper!

"Aren't you in Jiuyi Research Institute? It is said that you are about to become the dean of the largest private research institute in China? Congratulations!" Qu Daokui already knew the purpose of his little junior sister.

but.He couldn't follow her.

He has his own dreams.

Therefore, after hiding from Deng Lanqing for several days, and knowing that it was impossible to avoid the woman who spent every day outside his dormitory and the Kaka Research Building, he planned to meet her.

A few days ago, Yun Fei, the boss of the Jiuyi Research Institute, personally invited him to the Jiuyi Research Institute.He politely declined.

As a result, as soon as Yun Fei left, Deng Lanqing appeared.

How could he not know why?

"After these years of hard work, our team has overcome many technologies such as the open architecture of robot controllers, high-precision interpolation algorithms, multi-axis coordinated control, and sensor-based real-time control. Our robots have initially developed I really need your help on the basis of control and management technology for industrial robot production lines!" Women don't know how to be gentle, and at the same time, they don't know how to be tactful!

before coming.The boss, Yunfei, also told the woman in her thirties who didn't even have a date to make her request tactfully.

As a result, she was hurt by Qu Daokui's lukewarm reaction.

"I'm sorry, Junior Sister Lan Qing. I can't help you! The country has trained me, and I should be for the country, not a private boss!"

Everyone's time is precious.

Qu Daokui also rejected Deng Lanqing's request without tact.

Perhaps the Jiuyi Research Institute can provide better research conditions, more research funding, and more researchers than the National Laboratory, but it is unwilling to serve private elderly people.Even if you want to leave the institute, you should start your own business instead of working for a private boss.

If you work for a private boss, all your achievements will not belong to you!

"Why?" Deng Lanqing didn't expect that his senior brother would reject him so simply.

In the end, Deng Lanqing didn't get the reason why she was rejected.

In the past, he was secretly in love with this brother who was very devoted to robot research, and he was looking forward to meeting again all the time.

This kind of meeting is worse than not seeing each other, at least, it can leave some thoughts behind.

"Master, he refused to come to Rongcheng!" Deng Lanqing, who returned to Rongcheng, said reluctantly to the gray-haired mentor Ai Deyin in the National Robotics Open Laboratory.

The old man sighed, patted Deng Lanqing on the shoulder, and said nothing.

"He didn't even know how far we had come. He even refused to listen to my introduction..."

"It's okay, even the boss hasn't taken care of it, so what can you do? He doesn't want to come here, he has his own ideas. We can't force it. In this respect, you are lucky. Because your innocence back then was captured by Yun Fei That kid was tricked into Jiuyi Research Institute. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to go very far on this road..." After retiring, he received a joint invitation from Sun Lin and Situ Heyun, plus his own After several years of requests from students, he came to Jiuyi Research Institute with the mentality of trying.

It wasn't until the September [-]st Research Institute that it was discovered that this private research institute has already reached the front of the entire country in many fields of research.

For Yunfei, a rising star, many of its industries have been able to go ahead of domestic counterparts, and they have risen rapidly in just a few years. Many people who have come to Jiuyi Research Institute are not at all surprised.

Just such a research institute with fewer than [-] researchers invests hundreds of millions of research funds every year, which is unmatched by any research institute in any country.Moreover, as long as you do research in it, you don't have to think about anything at all. There are dedicated people serving them.

Do research.Just doing research.

Such a research institute is the place where results can be produced.

Only such a research institute is the place to really do research.

"But if we can't come up with results for a long time, I'm worried that the boss will cut off the research funds for our project..." It was originally because Yun Fei was fooled by the research on robots.

Most of the research in the past was on the control of CNC equipment and the coordination of multi-axis linkage. Fortunately, CNC equipment and robots are interoperable in many technologies.

The production and control technology of CNC equipment is more complicated than that of robots in many aspects.

Currently, the entire world uses robots.You only need to complete some simple actions.

Unlike CNC equipment, if the operating program is changed, different movements are required...

"No. He knows which projects are more important than us! Isn't the core of the unmanned flexible manufacturing system that Sun Lin and the others have been working on is also a robot!" Ai Deyin smiled.

This girl's research on robots is simply magical.

In the newly built automation research center of Jiuyi Research Institute, four CNC machines are neatly arranged around a three-level connected robot.

this robot.It is the latest robot developed by the robot research project of Jiuyi Research Institute for the flexible manufacturing system of the research institute. The manipulator is made of two semicircular clips that can be adjusted in size.

And the four CNC machines around it.They are all fully hydraulic high-end automatic CNC vehicles that are still in the experimental stage.Each cost more than 40 soft sister coins.

If the project of Jiuyi Research Institute is successful, the production of those large quantities of small parts will not even require operators!

A robot capable of universal rotation can replace ordinary operators and automatically complete the clamping and disassembly of processed parts under the control of the program.As long as there is no failure during operation.The efficiency of the entire manufacturing system can reach the highest design.

Robots will not have ups and downs like operators.

same.Robots don't need to eat, drink and rest...

"Old Sun, Situ, how is it?" Ai Deyin asked Sun Lin and Situ Heyun who were outside several devices.

Everyone knows that the first production test today will not be a direct success.

But how many faults and problems can be found is what everyone cares about.

This project, so far, has consumed more than 4000 million research funds of the research institute, and only now has the first set of samples.

"Hey, who the hell, don't make the material pile so high, the robot is not a human, he can't see that you pile the materials so high for it!" Ai Deyin saw the workers who were feeding the other party's materials on the automatic feeder like ordinary people. As in the workshop production, the material trucks are piled up to the brim, and I can't help but feel a little depressed.

This is the first experiment!

"Hey, Lao Ai, it seems that this logistics transport vehicle must be designed to be automatic, otherwise the workers will not have a standard for stacking, or it will not be neat enough, and it will easily cause problems in the first place..."

"Yes, this is a problem. Xiao Deng, record the defects of the material truck first." Hearing Situ Heyun's words, Ai Deyin took it seriously.

After the workers had installed all the material carts next to the four CNC machines and placed them in a fixed position, Ai Deyin took Deng Lanqing to check again in person before walking to the side of the control computer and facing the front of the computer. young engineer nodded.

"Stay out of the yellow line, the automatic production test will start soon..." the safety officer next to him raised his red flag and shouted at the engineers surrounding the flexible unit.

Even if there is a protective net outside, the safety system must still be implemented.

During the operation of the robot's mechanical arm, no one is allowed to enter the range of the protective net, and must retreat outside the yellow line area a few meters away from the protective net.

The trajectory of the robot is recorded by high-definition cameras installed around the protective net.

As the young engineer in front of the computer tapped his fingers on the keyboard, the robot that originally stood quietly in the middle of the four CNC machines began to move slowly.

Under the control of the program, the protective door of the CNC car numbered one quickly retreated to the end of the guide rail of the CNC car.

"Xiao Feng, adjust the speed to the slowest, and control the program to run in a single segment..." The technology has been explained countless times before, and Ai Deyin and others are still worried that Feng Bao will not remember.

The total cost of the four CNC vehicles in front of me and the seemingly simple one-armed robot in the middle, as well as the supporting special material vehicles, automatic transfer vehicles, etc., exceeds 300 million. It is a bit big loss if the defect that is not found after running makes it scrapped.

The loss of money is not a problem. Even if the mechanical arm is broken and repaired, it will not cost much. The loss of time is the biggest loss.

"Slow down, point the camera at the manipulator, Xiao Feng, slow down there, yes, yes, now you can see the movement of the manipulator..." Because it is an experiment, the control computer is very close to the tracking and monitoring computer.

In the monitoring computer screen, the manipulator slowly and mechanically opened two semicircular calipers, stretching towards the ordinary steel rods with a diameter of 20 mm and a length of 80 mm neatly stacked on the material cart.

"Slow down, the computer is manually controlled. The No. [-] camera monitors the movement of the hydraulic chuck of the CNC car, and the No. [-] monitoring position monitors the parameters of the No. [-] machine. If something is wrong, it will be stopped immediately..." Several old men They are all in their seventies, and the young Deng Lanqing has become the commander-in-chief.

In the first test, everyone's hearts were tense.

Originally, there should be only one console manufacturing system. In order to obtain detailed information and achieve more detailed monitoring, a total of four consoles were designed, one for heavy control, one for overall monitoring, and the other two for one Control two machines.

All of this is for experimentation.

For progress!

Each of the four consoles has an emergency stop button. As long as any of the four people under monitoring finds a problem, press the emergency stop button on it, whether it is a CNC car or a robot, it will stop running.

In other words, in this flexible system jointly designed by several older academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Deng Lanqing, the four should have been independent CNC vehicles, robots in the middle, and even material vehicles for transfer, etc., are all a linked whole .

Otherwise, if there is a problem with the CNC car, it is not a big deal, only one will be damaged, and if there is a problem with the robot, all four CNC cars may even be completely destroyed by the robot that is out of control due to the problem. bad.

This kind of thing is something that no one wants to see. (To be continued..)