Intelligent Industrial Empire

A pair of middle-aged men and women are looking at each other on a stone stool beside the tree-lined path outside the research center building of the Northeast Institute of Automation. There are little sparks in the eyes of both parties, which is caused by eye contact.

It's not a collision of dry wood and raging fire!

Please don't be crooked.

This is not about looking at each other with expressions of young men and women who are in love.

Of course, it's not the love that is about to part ways & people look at each other angrily with the gaze trying to kill each other.

"Junior Sister Deng, if you have something, please say it quickly. It's time for work right now!" Qu Daokui still lost the battle after looking at Deng Lanqing. Said the little sister who was engaged in robotics research in the Robotics Open Laboratory.

If there was no Yunfei, there would be no Jiuyi Research Institute, China’s largest non-governmental mechatronics comprehensive research institute, perhaps in December 1993 as a visiting scholar from the Electronic Technology System Theory Laboratory of Saarland University in Germany, engaged in neuron networks in robotics After the application research in China came back, Qu Daokui, who became the head of the Robot Development Department of the Northeast Institute of Automation (National Robotics Engineering Research Center) in January 1994, is already the first person in China's robotics research.

Unfortunately, there is no if in the world.

Deng Lanqing's talent in mechanical automation is at least much stronger than Qu Daokui.Especially after graduating from the post-doctorate, he entered the September 1st Research Institute and practiced the application of various mechanical automation in numerical control equipment with Sun Lin and Situ Heyun.

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

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

Although the Chinese Academy of Sciences has specialized robotics research laboratories, few universities offer specialized robotics design and manufacturing courses except for related majors such as mechanical automation.

At present, in the whole 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 engaged in scientific research often have a kind of intellectual beauty that makes people palpitating.

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

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

Typical female man paper!

"Are you not in the Jiuyi Research Institute? It is said that you will soon become the dean of the largest private research institute in the country? Congratulations!" Qu Daokui has long known the intention of his junior sister.

However, he could not follow her.

He has his own dreams.

Therefore, after hiding Deng Lanqing for many days, and knowing that she couldn't avoid the women who stayed outside her dormitory and the scientific research building every day, she decided to meet.

A few days ago, Yun Fei, the owner of the Jiuyi Research Institute, personally invited him to the Jiuyi Research Institute, but he tactfully refused.

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

How could he not know where he came?

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

Before coming, the boss Yun Fei also told this woman, who was already in her 30s and had no target, she must make a request euphemistically.

As a result, under Qu Daokui's lukewarm reaction, she was very injured.

"I'm sorry, Junior Sister Lan Qing, I can't help you! The country has nurtured me. I should be the country, not the private boss!" She kept cutting, and the reason was chaotic.

Everyone's time is precious.

Qu Daokui also refused Deng Lanqing's request without euphemism.

Perhaps the Jiuyi Research Institute can provide better research conditions, more research funding, and more researchers than the National Laboratory, but he 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.

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

"Why?" Deng Lanqing didn't expect that his senior would simply reject him in this way.

In the end, Deng Lanqing did not get the reason why he was rejected.

Once, he was secretly in love with this senior who was very devoted to robotics research, and looked forward to meeting again all the time.

Such a meeting is worse than not seeing each other, at least, to leave some thoughts behind.

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

The old man sighed and patted Deng Lanqing on the shoulder without saying anything.

"He doesn't even know how much progress we have made. He even refused to listen to my introduction..."

"It's okay, even the boss hasn't gotten it done, so what can you do? He doesn't want to come here, he has his own ideas. We can't force it. In this regard, you are lucky. Because you were innocent at the time, and you were so innocent. The kid flickered to the September 1st Research Institute. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to go too far along this road..." Until after retirement, I received a joint invitation from Sun Lin and Situ Heyun, plus his own. After several years of student requests, he came to the September 1st Research Institute with the mentality of trying.

It wasn't until the September 1st Research Institute that this private research institute, in many fields of research, has come to the front of the entire country.

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

Such a research institute with less than a thousand people invests hundreds of millions in 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, and there are dedicated people to serve them.

Those who do research are just responsible for doing research.

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

Only such a research institute is a place for real research.

"But if we can't produce results for a long time, I'm very worried that the boss will cut off the research funds for our project..." It was originally because of the research on robots that Yunfei was fooled.

Most of the previous researches were 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 robots in many aspects.

At present, the robots used in the whole world only need to complete some simple actions.

Unlike numerical control equipment, when the running program changes, there must be different movements...

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

This girl's research robot is simply magical.

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

This robot is the latest robot developed by the robotics research project of the Jiuyi Research Institute for the flexible manufacturing system of the research institute. The manipulator is made of two adjustable semicircular clamps.

The four numerically controlled vehicles around are all fully hydraulic high-end automatic numerically controlled vehicles that are still in the experimental stage, and the cost of each is more than 400,000 yuan.

If the research of the Jiuyi Research Institute is successful, the production of large quantities of small parts will no longer even require operators!

A robot that can rotate universally 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.

Similarly, robots do not need to eat or drink to rest...

"Old Sun, Situ, how's it going?" Ai Deyin asked Sun Lin and Situ Heyun who were all outside of several devices.

The first production test conducted today will certainly not succeed directly, as everyone knows.

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

This project, so far, has consumed more than 40 million research funds of the Institute, and only now has the first set of samples taken out.

"Hey, who, don't pile the material so high, the robot is not a human, he can't see that you pile the material so high!" Ai Deyin saw the worker who was feeding the other material on the automatic feeder as ordinary It’s a bit depressing to fill up the material trucks like the workshop production.

This is the first experiment!

"Hey, Lao Ai, it seems that this logistics truck must also be designed to be automatic. Otherwise, there is no standard for workers to stack them, or they are not neat enough, and it is easy to have problems at the first time..."

"Yeah, this is a problem. Xiao Deng, first record the defects of the material truck." Ai Deyin agreed with Situ Heyun's words.

After the workers installed the material trucks next to the four CNC carts and placed them in a fixed position, Ai Deyin took Deng Lanqing to personally check again, then walked to the side of the control computer and faced the computer. The young engineer nodded.

"All retreat beyond the yellow line, and the automatic production test will begin immediately..." The security officer next to him raised the red flag in his hand and shouted at the engineers surrounding the flexible unit.

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

During the operation of the robotic arm of the robot, no one is allowed to enter the range of the protective net, and has to retreat beyond the yellow line area a few meters away from the protective net.

The robot's trajectory was recorded by high-definition cameras installed around the protective net.

As the young engineer in front of the control computer tapped his finger on the keyboard, the robot, which had been standing quietly in the middle of the four CNC cars, began to move slowly.

Under the control of the program, the protective door of the numerical control car with the number one quickly retracts to the tail of the guide rail of the numerical control car.

"Xiao Feng, set the speed to the slowest, and control the program to run in a single stage..." The technology has been explained countless times before, but Ai Deyin and others are still worried that Feng Bao can't remember it.

The total cost of these four CNC cars and the very simple one-arm robot in the middle, as well as the supporting special material cars, automatic transfer cars, etc. have exceeded 3 million. If it is due to operational errors or after assembly, The defect that is not found after running alone makes it scrapped, and the loss is a bit big.

Money loss is not a problem. Even if the mechanical arm breaks and repairs, it will not cost much. Loss of time is the biggest loss.

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

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

"Slow down, the computer is manually controlled, the third camera is used to control the hydraulic chuck of the CNC car, and the second monitoring position is used to determine the parameters of the first machine. If you find something wrong, stop it immediately..." Several old men They are all in their 70s, and the young Deng Lanqing has become the commander-in-chief.

In the first test, everyone's hearts collapsed tightly.

Originally there should only be a manufacturing system with a console. 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 one for the other two. Control two machines.

All this is for experimentation.

For progress!

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

That is to say, in this flexible system jointly designed by several older generations of Chinese Academy of Sciences academicians and Deng Lanqing, the four should originally belong to independent CNC cars, the robots in the middle, and even the material transfer cars, etc., are all in a linked whole. .

Otherwise, if there is a problem with the CNC car, it is not a major issue. Only one of the robots will be damaged. If the robot has a problem, the four CNC cars may even be destroyed by the robots that are not controlled due to the problem. Bad.

No one wants to see such a thing.