Chapter 589

How about the standard Titan? Of course!

Before the earthquake relief in Southwest China, Titan's excellent performance has proved the excellence of this large humanoid mechanical vehicle.

They are robust, flexible and convenient, and can adapt to various positions and environments almost as well as people.

And all kinds of Titans can be used in almost most occasions, whether military or civil, with high value.

That's why even if the standard Titan is expensive, the state still plans to mass produce it.

But it's not cheap.

The cost of a standard Titan, no matter how simple it is, is almost the same as that of the latest fighter before the disaster. Before the disaster, the country did not need the money. However, in the current environment, it can only be said to build a batch of small-scale fighters first.

Large scale production of Titans, which for the country, really can not afford.

Even if Chen Xin reduced the cost to the price of a main battle tank, it could not be mass produced.

This is why although Chen Xin has provided a large number of high-tech and good things to the country, the country still changes and reuses the old things.

Is not willing to use good things, but really can not afford to use.

Therefore, in the mining Titan project, the design team adheres to only one basic principle, that is, cheap, mass production.

The buffer cockpit, which can completely wrap the pilot, has been removed and replaced with a helmet and metal frame with only exoskeleton for protection.

The driving mode has also been transformed from the human-computer interaction assisted by the computer intelligent program into the force feedback operation of a more fool.

Just these two changes have downgraded the mining Titan from a standard Titan to a mechanical frame that is only a little better than the exoskeleton.

Of course, the original high cost will come down.

Titan itself is expensive, of course, and its driving mode has a lot to do with it.

It's a metal structure that weighs several tons. Even if there are all kinds of power assisted machines inside to make the giant move, it's not something that can be pulled manually by the driver.

It's just like the joystick of an airplane. The old airplane is connected with the wing by steel wire. In those days, the pilot used to pull the airplane by brute force. So the scene of the broken joystick in the cartoon is not a fake. Sometimes it's broken and it doesn't have to be pulled.

The control lever of modern aircraft has hydraulic power or electronic assistance. The larger the aircraft, the more complex it is, and the higher the cost will be.

Titan is the same. If we want to make this kind of several ton people move, we need to write a complex control program, so that the computer installed in the cockpit can accurately recognize the driver's instructions and give timely feedback. This not only requires a lot of labor, but also needs to design a very complex operating system.

Not the one in the computer, but the system that operates Titan.

This is the big part of the cost. After all, electronic components, circuits, mechanical transmission structures and other things are money.

But it's easy to switch to the exoskeleton type. A few metal hydraulic connecting rods, a set of force sensing feedback module, all live together.

Compared with the standard Titan, the combined cost of a mining Titan is less expensive than that of a standard Titan cockpit.

But that's also its advantage.

This thing is designed to improve the mining efficiency of the mine, that is to say, the miners can extract more ore in unit time.

That Eight Legged mining Titan prototype is really efficient. One can work twice as efficiently as the final mining Titan, but this is based on the premise of five times the manufacturing cost and the need for professional Titan drivers.

Although professional Titan pilots have been trained all the time, and even a training base has been built near the scientific research center, there are not many of them, just a little more than the total number of Titans produced at present.

Under such circumstances, it is obviously impossible for the valuable Titan pilot to do the work of mining.

The optimal solution should be to allocate the mining Titan to the basic level miners directly to improve their work efficiency.

So it's easy to understand why the mining Titan did such a good job.

However, Chen Xin is not very satisfied with this. It's not that he is dissatisfied with the design idea of mining Titan, but that he thinks it can be improved.

The researcher asked for a mining Titan that was being tested. He sat on it and tried to operate it. He also compared it with the prototype that he had sat on before.

It has to be said that the contrast is really strong. The comfort of driving is really different.

Of course, on the whole, the mining Titan is OK, although the cab... No, it can only be called the driver's seat. The driver is completely exposed, which can not be called a "cab".

Although the driver's seat is not comfortable enough and completely exposed, considering that the miners' working environment is hundreds of meters underground, this simple design is not a big problem. Even if it is used in an open-pit mine, as long as the workers wear protective clothing, there will be no problem.

The simple exoskeleton is also easy to operate, only need one or two days of training to be able to fully master its use.

But for the mining efficiency of this thing, Chen Xin thinks it can be improved.

There is only one air pick. The efficiency is not substantially improved compared with the original manpower exploitation.

"Contact the mining department and ask them to arrange a mine. We need to take this mining Titan to the site for testing. I always feel that it can be improved." Chen Xin came down from the mining Titan and said to the researcher on one side.

However, after listening to his words, the researcher on one side asked curiously, "academician, what do you think can be transformed? Now this should be the most appropriate way, right? That's what we've simplified according to the lowest manufacturing cost. "

"No, no, what I'm going to do is not to simplify its manufacturing costs, but to enhance its efficiency." Chen Xin shakes his head and shakes his head. He is afraid that the mining Titan explained to the researcher, "your simplification is very good. Its cost is effectively reduced, but the mining efficiency is also reduced, isn't it? Although it is right and necessary to reduce the cost, if the efficiency is too low, it will lose its practical significance.

So I'm going to take this mining Titan to the mine for field test to see how efficient it is and whether there is room for improvement. "

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