Chapter 088 Comprehensive Sensing
the other side.
Zhang Hao, who also serves as the technical executive of Helix Information Technology Company, is also busy with his work.
As one of the few programmers among managers who has mastered programming skills, Zhang Hao's status within the Intelligent Company is higher than his brother's. After all, his younger brother Zhang Wei is not a member of the Spider Web, so there is obviously a layer of separation between them.
At this time, Zhang Hao was in charge of the Information Department of the Security Department and also served as the technical executive of Helix Information Technology Company.
The Helix Company was established half a year ago. It has two core businesses: one is to build an open electronic computer software design company, and the other is to develop its own biological computer software in secret.
Among them, the application software of ordinary electronic computers is not difficult for Zhang Hao, especially those commercial software. Anyway, he just needs to "borrow" existing commercial software as much as possible.
There are more than a hundred programmers responsible for this area, and their only task is to draw on other commercial software.
The core technology research and development team led by Zhang Hao and others, with a total of more than 30 programmers, is responsible for developing software based on the biological computer system.
These thirty-odd programmers are the ones who belong to Spirosome Corporation. After all, they are people who have access to biological computers. Each of them needs to be implanted with a biochip and other preventive measures to ensure their absolute loyalty.
Although there are differences between biological computers and electronic computers, the software framework is similar, which mainly makes it convenient to quickly port some useful electronic computer software to biological computers.
In particular, courses such as "Basics of Pseudo-Electronic Software Programming", "Fuzzy Control Mode of Biological Computers", and "Transplantation and Adaptation of Electronic Software" created independently by Li Qingye, combining the characteristics of electronic computers and biological computers, have been deeply implanted in the minds of Zhang Hao and others through the biological chips in their brains.
Now they can independently develop some application software for biological computers.
However, some of the industrial software involved recently has caused them some headaches.
Mainly the design of industrial software requires a large number of professional scientific researchers and experimental data support. This is also the fundamental reason why Western industrial software is very powerful, because their accumulation is strong enough.
As for the accumulation of industrial data by Sapiens, it cannot be said that it has not, but it is also the same as nothing.
After all, a good cook cannot cook without rice.
Zhang Hao is now having a headache. After all, no matter how well the software simulates, it still needs the support of real industrial and experimental data. He is not an aerodynamicist, and he is really helpless when facing aircraft simulation test software.
Fortunately, Li Qingye gave him a suggestion.
At this time, Zhang Hao brought five programmers to the town of Kulasi on Panay Island.
When Fang Bo heard that the technical executive of Helix Company was coming, he quickly put down his work and came over to personally accompany Zhang Hao and others.
After hearing Zhang Hao's request, Fang Bai also understood that both sides needed to cooperate in order to overcome some difficulties.
At this time, Baoliu brought them to the wind tunnel test building of Feiyu Company. This is the mini wind tunnel system currently developed by Feiyu Company. There are a total of 10 mini wind tunnels, which can test aircraft weighing less than 10 kilograms.
Fang Bo reminded quietly: "Manager Paul, this kind of wind tunnel can only test small drones. We can't test our large drones here."
But Paul remained unmoved. He asked a soldier beside him to push out a cart with dozens of boxes on it, which contained sparrows, swallows, seagulls and dragonflies.
"What is this?" Fang Bo didn't understand Paul's operation. Although human fixed-wing aircraft imitate animal wings, it is difficult to accurately collect data from birds in wind tunnel experiments.
Paul put a sparrow into the mini wind tunnel and told it to start. The sparrow then began to fly in the tunnel.
Then the technician operating the wind tunnel kept changing the airflow, wind speed and temperature, but the sparrow continued to soar until it was exhausted.
Paul took out the sparrow, injected it with special nutrient solution and fatigue-relieving medicine, and then let it recuperate in the cage.
At the same time, a special fiber optic signal connector was connected to the sparrow's head.
Zhang Hao and others who are proficient in biological computers quickly read the sparrow's flight data. After combining it with the wind tunnel data and synchronizing the time, they soon discovered many interesting models and data.
"This..." Fang Bai was very shocked.
Paul said, "We don't have enough aerodynamics experience. The core database of Western industrial software is not open to the public, and it is easy to leak information during use. Therefore, we can only rely on ourselves, using birds and insects as test subjects to quickly accumulate a batch of flight data. Large aircraft will be tested after the large wind tunnel is completed."
But Fang Bo asked excitedly: "Paul, can this kind of sensor on birds and insects be installed on aircraft?"
"..." Paul's biochip calculated and replied after a few minutes: "Yes, it requires special coating and chip support."
"Great! If that's the case, then we can design a large number of scaled-down aircraft models. Although the small models cannot be 100% equivalent to the prototype, at least we can quickly accumulate data and eliminate some inappropriate aerodynamic layouts."
Fang Bo obviously noticed the special sensors on these test animals, whose accuracy and coverage area are almost equivalent to that the entire surface of the aircraft can detect feedback information.
This technology is simply terrifyingly powerful.
It should be noted that the current high-precision detection equipment and sensors cannot completely cover the surface of the aircraft. They can only detect each point one by one, and then after secondary processing by software, a rough simulation data can be given.
The special sensor in front of us is accurate to the level of a few microns and covers the entire surface.
Fang Bai saw on the screen that the sparrow's flight model showed very intensive changes every microsecond. After magnifying it more than ten times, he could see the airflow, temperature, lift and drag conditions in each area above.
Why do human aircraft need huge power? Why can't they fly like birds?
The reason is that it is very difficult to control the posture of ordinary aircraft. If they are to be designed to be as precise as a bird, the computing power required for posture control must be sky-high.
However, this problem is not a difficult one for Feiyu, because Feiyu's parent company can provide chips with extremely powerful computing power.
In this way, Fang Bai's thoughts were opened.
Instead of sticking to the current aerodynamic layout of aircraft, why not go directly into bionics, imitate bird wings, and directly play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.
Adding various small attitude control motors and winglets to the fixed-wing aircraft can take advantage of the chip's computing power.
That kind of sensor would make the bionic design of wings much easier, while also allowing for quick acquisition of a lot of basic flight data.
Fang Bai's suggestion was recognized by Zhang Hao.
After Paul reported this to Li Qingye, he also thought this plan was good.
Although precision-controlled aircraft will lead to increased manufacturing costs, this is also the only way for cruise missiles to increase their range.
After all, if cruise missiles are to be able to strike North America, the cost of the aircraft will definitely increase.
Li Qingye asked Paul to expand the scale of the mini wind tunnel according to Fang Bo's suggestion, and at the same time design a large-scale miniature aircraft model to accumulate sufficient data for the flight software.
The high-precision full-body data collection system makes the mini wind tunnel very cost-effective and reduces some initial investments.
While large wind tunnels are still essential, mini wind tunnels can at least make the difference for a while.
