206: Chapter 206 Intelligent Industrial Robots

Regarding industrial robots, although China started late, it has achieved certain results. Significant progress has been made in frequency converters, servo motors, PLC communication, and programming control.

In addition to its programming language, another important core of an industrial robot is its drive method.

Compared to ordinary industrial robots, the intelligent robots on an Engineering Ship must abandon hydraulic and pneumatic systems due to environmental constraints; the only remaining option is electric drive.

However, electric drive is currently the most widely used drive method for industrial robots.

This drive method has many advantages: convenient power supply, fast response, and high driving force are the most direct benefits. Given the specific demands of intelligent systems, its immediacy in signal detection, transmission, and processing is even more crucial.

Drive motors generally use stepper motors, DC servo motors, and AC servo motors.

The speeds of these motors are generally very high, so another important mechanical aspect of modern industrial robots is the motor's auxiliary device: the reduction mechanism.

Whether it's harmonic drive, gear drive, RV cycloidal pinwheel drive, screw motion, or multi-link mechanisms, the specific choices vary slightly among different brands of robots.

Specifically on the Engineering Ship, they have evolved directly to high-torque, low-speed motors for direct drive without reduction mechanisms.

This offers several advantages: a simple structure and the highest control precision, but it places high demands on the performance of the motor itself and the feedback system.

The blueprint data from System Big Brother is the final answer that perfectly solves these problems.

When Chu Ge was looking through the materials, he discovered another obvious difference between the intelligent systems of the transport Engineering Ship and industrial robots: the sensor configuration.

Industrial robots need a large number of sensors. Whether inside or outside the system, they require precise point control, motion trajectory planning when moving objects, and accurate setting of starting and ending positions and orientations.

All of these require the assistance of sensors.

The intelligent system of the Engineering Ship largely abandons these sensors, replacing them with a combination of an active sensing system and a high-speed central processor.

This precise active sensing system can be considered the eyes and nerves of this intelligent robot system. it integrates several highly integrated subsystems such as laser testing, force sensing, and video monitoring.

This basically realizes self-programming control, eliminating the need for staff to perform extensive preliminary settings like CAD mechanical drawing and coordinate axis CNC programming.

The perception system of the Engineering Ship is basically sufficient at this point; it is simpler than the industrial automation system at the Lunar Base, feeling like a stripped-down version.

The system in the lunar industrial base also extends further to robot environment interaction systems and human-machine interaction systems.

The environment interaction system is primarily a system that connects the robot with equipment in the external environment for communication and coordination.

These devices include many types and functional units, such as processing and manufacturing units, welding units, assembly units, reaction and purification units, forging units, and so on.

Human-machine interaction includes basic control devices such as standard computer terminals, command consoles, information display boards, and danger signal alarms.

There are also more advanced ones similar to the Soul Blade system, which directly converts human language into computer language and then issues command programs.

The intelligent system of the industrial base is a Level 2 intelligent system, subordinate to the spherical central intelligent system (Level 1 intelligent system) of the Lunar Base.

However, they all have independent CPUs and data storage.

Key program instructions and daily work information are summarized in the largest spherical central intelligent system of the Lunar Base—'Tianzhi'.

Finally, there are the robot manipulators. The Engineering Ship uses 10-degree-of-freedom robots to maximize flexibility, and the bases of these robots are not fixed; they are on rails.

They can move freely along the central axis or the transverse plane of the Engineering Ship according to mission requirements.

Each Engineering Ship is equipped with 20 intelligent industrial robots along the entire central axis.

Of these 20, sixteen have an arm-style structure, while the remaining four are heavy-duty open structures where different modules, such as grabs or overhead cranes, can be installed as needed.

At this point, System Big Brother's theoretical data regarding the transport Engineering Ship was basically complete; all that remained were the programming data and the structural blueprints for the entire ship.

The structural blueprints and theoretical data had been fully organized before Chu Ge set off for the Dockyard Base. Now, only the tedious and rigorous coding remained, and Chu Ge still had a few loose ends to finish.

After organizing everything, Chu Ge stretched his limbs, cracked his knuckles, and began a week-long life as a code monkey.

Compared to the high-level programming language of Mecha Warriors, the programming for intelligent industrial robots leaned more toward assembly language.

The target programs compiled from this assembly language occupy less memory, have higher operational efficiency, and can directly reference various computer hardware resources.

But after all, it is a simple and crude low-level language. Compared to the high-level program of the Soul Blade, it is much worse in terms of flexibility and readability.

Writing this kind of programming language with many repetitive commands and pseudo-instruction programs is a great test for the human brain.

The powerful effects of the Intermediate Gene Medicine showed its superb value at this time.

Even if Chu Ge didn't sleep and grinded for four or five days, it shouldn't be a big problem. His memory and physical coordination had been vastly improved compared to before.

Otherwise, with his previous brain, Chu Ge estimated it would have taken an entire month to complete this set of program coding.

During his breaks from coding, Chu Ge uncharacteristically browsed some portal websites and famous apps. The latest hot topic was the conflict between en own and Li Guangrong.

Clearly, the heated rhetoric from within Country H had reached China, and netizens from both countries had begun a long-lasting war of words.

After being detained for nearly a week, Li Guangrong finally returned to his own country. The prerequisite for his release was his meticulous execution of the police's penalty decision.

Various protests and negotiations from Country H did not shake China's determination to enforce this penalty. Li Guangrong eventually couldn't hold out any longer and reluctantly signed and made a public apology.

In fact, there wasn't much official interaction regarding this matter. The United States only verbally expressed sympathy for Country H and mentioned nothing else.

As for other countries, they were even less willing to stroke the whiskers of the giant dragon that is China over such a trivial matter. Therefore, after shouting for a few days, Country H also quieted down.

Only the netizens of Country H remained. They felt their dignity was being insulted, so they swarmed websites all over the world to appeal their grievances. Similar videos and posts were everywhere on YouTube.

However, it was clear that the netizens of Country H had a bit of a poor reputation. For one thing, their previous arrogance and conceit on the internet were off-putting.

Another point was that everyone had learned the cause and process of this incident through videos. Any normal person would objectively support the actions of the Chinese officials.

Chu Ge quickly browsed through the comments of foreign netizens and smiled. Honestly, it was quite interesting.

It turns out that roasting people requires talent, especially the Japanese netizens, whose rebuttals against the people of Country H were well-reasoned and logical. Chu Ge found it very therapeutic to watch...