Vol 2 Chapter 737: Insect bionics design

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"Haha! Boss, you have too much grudges! I just complained during the last meeting, why do you still remember this thing now!" Hearing Lei Tiantang said this, from the Deep Space Laboratory The person in charge Zhang Hanxiu couldn't help but spit out with a smile.
The people around were also amused. To be honest, although Lei Tiantang is now the richest man in the world, his identity has not affected the harmonious relationship between the company’s employees and him. Everyone will not just because he is his own boss. Thoughts about what needs to be kept at a distance.
Instead, everyone admires him because of his technical strength. After all, an expert boss is a better boss for the employees of a large technology research and development company, so they joked with each other when they were together. Everyone will not think this is any strange.
After the group came to the test building of the lunar landing probe, Zhang Hanxiu began to give a brief introduction to the same packaged spare probe of the Moon Palace Pathfinder.
"Boss, our lunar probe is technically much better than our country's series of lunar landing probes. On the one hand, this is the reason why our company's various material technology and design considerations are more complete.
On the other hand, the size of our lunar probe is much larger than theirs. This is mainly because our company’s rocket has a stronger carrying capacity and can carry more mass to launch to the moon.
The larger size allows us to install more detector components for our lunar probe, so that it can perform more detection tasks and conduct more lunar surface experiments. As he introduced, he asked Origin to project the test image of the'Moon Palace Pathfinder'.
"Although it is equipped with wheels, how do I look at it like an insect crawling? Is it my illusion?" Kayla asked curiously, watching the various movements of the detector in the image.
She is a girl who grew up on a farm, and her job is also archeology, so she has a deep understanding of insects, so after seeing the movement of the detector, she instinctively perceives that its movements seem to imitate the way insects walk.
"Your feeling is not wrong at all! I said before that our design is better than just talking about it. Our detector does use the design concept of insect bionics, and it does use insects in crawling and walking. Design ideas.
And our Mars Landing Rover also uses this bionic design! "Zhang Hanxiu smiled and confirmed Kayla's conjecture, and then he briefly introduced the reason for this design.
We must know that insects are an important member of the ever-growing nature. They have lived on the earth for at least 300 million years. There are now more than 1 million species of insects in the world, accounting for 2/3 of all animals.
Insects are everywhere in our lives, and their distribution range is extremely wide, from the equator to the poles, from the ocean, rivers to the desert, and even up to the highest peak in the world-Mount Everest, down to hundreds of meters deep in the soil, the earth There are insects in almost all corners of Shanghai.
Precisely because insects have a strong ability to adapt to the environment, scientists hope to imitate them to make robot insects to detect various complex environments on other planets.
It has always been the unremitting pursuit of these scientists to manufacture a rover with good maneuverability, multiple functions and low power consumption. How can we make a better detection robot?
Scientists in the laboratory thought of the super adaptability of insects. Some researchers plan to learn from insects and apply this characteristic of insects to the robot insects to be developed.
Of course, in order to make Kayla, a layman, understand the research work in this area more clearly, Zhang Hanxiu also explained the difficulties in this research, and at the same time introduced the origin synchronous projection to show the relevant research process.
In order to develop better performance for the moon and Mars rover, there is a laboratory dedicated to biological robots in the company's laboratory. This research team mainly develops a robot walking probe with a more stable walking mode.
At the beginning, it looked almost exactly the same as a spider, but its size was enlarged many times. In the laboratory, the scientists first carefully analyzed the behavior of the spider using slow motion video, and then copied all the joint structure of the insect to the robot.
The legs of the robot walking detector are divided into 5 parts, and compressed air is used to promote the operation of the robot's "leg joints". However, this design is very power-consuming and complicated. Any part of the failure may paralyze the entire robot.
Therefore, the scientists in the laboratory intend to simplify this robot crawler and make another robot~EbookFREE.me~ Replace 8 legs with 6 legs with wheels, each "leg wheel" consists of 3 The "calf" wraps around to form a circle, which looks like a wheel with a gap.
As the wheels turn, the 3 feet on each leg wheel will land on the ground in turn, pushing the robot forward. In this way, the robot can drive six leg wheels to operate at the same time with only one engine, and the complexity is greatly reduced.
The front of this robot is also equipped with two antennae. When it encounters an obstacle, these two antennae can help it to judge whether to bypass, climb over, or penetrate.
The robot uses the axis of the middle two leg wheels as the dividing point, which is divided into front and rear parts. When it encounters a large obstacle, it can also lift the front body like a spider, and the rear 4 legs are responsible for providing forward power. , The front two legs are responsible for climbing upwards-these characteristics make it very similar to the way a spider moves.
But there are other shortcomings of traditional robotic rover. For example, people are on the earth and use remote control to control the rover. This will cause a 40-minute delay between each command and its return.
Therefore, it is very important to develop a robot that can fully "self-control". It is almost impossible to control the advancement of a six-legged robot insect through precise programming. Therefore, the research work of these insect bionics detectors But it's not simple at all, and it has failed many times before finally completing the follow-up design work.
After reading the design process of the landing probe, Kayla also understood why her boyfriend had to spend so much money in the laboratory investment. The various failed experiments in it alone would cost a lot of money. Without sufficient funds and talents, it is absolutely impossible to complete the design of these detectors in such a short time. Success has never been that simple.