Chapter 144 Autonomous Machinery
Perficott was satisfied with Andrew's caution, but she still said to Andrew: "In this case, all skilled workers who have been exposed to the production of Steam Knight Armor should be relocated." If anyone doesn’t want to go to the north, just let him come and talk to me.”
Although Purficott said this, she actually didn’t care too much about the leakage of the Steam Knight’s drawings and technology.
The Steam Knight is actually composed of three parts. One is the armor itself, the other is the knight as the wearer, and the third is the power source that can drive the armor.
Knights are the best solution among the three parts. All major countries have established knight troops. Even if the standard is raised to big knights, for each country, it is nothing more than selecting an elite force. That’s all.
In comparison, the armor itself is indeed somewhat difficult.
But the difficulty is not how to make it, but its core design concept.
Just like in the original world, various countries had related research on active exoskeletons during the Cold War. The earliest exoskeleton patents can even be traced back to the second industrial revolution, which shows that its principle is not complicated.
But until Perficott traveled through, no country had come up with a Destined Exoskeleton that could be put into actual combat in a real sense.
Although it is not that there is no military equipment, it is more like conducting a small-scale trial and collecting experimental data.
The reason why progress is so slow is that, in addition to the most critical energy issue and the inability to create a portable high-density energy source that can drive exoskeleton activities for a long time, one of the most important factors is the control of human-computer interaction.
Briefly, human-computer interaction work is divided into three steps:
The first step is to perceive the human body’s behavioral intentions and collect human body information;
The second is to act on the external environment. Make a judgment and calculate the next automatic operation strategy of all motors through an algorithm;
Finally, it continuously jumps to the previous step while physically realizing the movement, and judges the degree of achievement of the behavior in real time, taking into account the changes in the external environment and the user. Based on the operation intention, the system movement strategy can be adjusted in real time.
How to effectively obtain the human body's intentions, how to quickly make next judgments, and how to ensure that the body's behavior can be synchronized with the human body are the main difficulties that plague the development of exoskeletons.
After all, the essential purpose of wearing an active exoskeleton is to save effort and assist. If it takes more effort to put it on than not wearing it, or if you want to lift your legs and end up doing big splits, this is obviously not acceptable.
Perficott also faced related problems when he initially developed the Steam Knight Armor.
Wanting to triple the wearer's strength is not something that can be easily accomplished. It does not mean installing a few hydraulic connecting rods on the arm to increase the output power to three times the human body's output. That's enough.
The installed power-assisted structure must accurately match the force-generating mode of the corresponding action to ensure that there will be no errors or errors in the timing and direction of the force.
It is absolutely impossible to try to contract your arm, only to have it broken off by the power-assisted structure.
To solve this problem, we must have a considerable degree of research on the human body structure and a large amount of computing data.
For any country in the world, this is not something that can be solved in a short time.
Even Purficott herself could not solve these problems without the difference engine and mechanical logic.
If this problem cannot be solved, simply getting the design drawings of Steam Rider will be nothing more than making an empty shell imitating her product, without the most critical core part. The big guys in the Imperial Military Department were able to imitate it, and they also relied on the help of Perficott. The most critical micro-difference machine equipped with mechanical logic, only Perficott had the relevant technology.
She did package and sell her maid puppet technology connected to the alchemy workshop, but the technology mastered by the other party could only be copied according to the technical template she provided, and could not rewrite the mechanical logic. part of any content.
So the difference engine manufactured by the other party can still only carry the instruction set of the maid puppet, but cannot carry the instruction set of the steam knight.
This part of the command set is only owned by Purficott herself. She provided a standard template to the imperial military. Because of this, the imperial military was able to imitate the Steam Knight.
As long as the people in the military are not idiots, they will not let anyone threaten this template.
Moreover, only a few high-level military officials knew the information about this template, and others did not know its existence at all.
Even if this template is leaked, do you think Perficott has set up a backdoor in the instruction set?
Anyway, she has never worried that someone would use Steam Knight against her.
"Can you make large mechanical parts?" After talking to Andrew about the transfer of Steam Knight Armor technical workers, Purficott suddenly asked.
Andrew didn't know why, but he still replied: "It depends on how large the part is. If it is the size of a port crane, we can make it. Do you have anything big that needs to be made?"
As he asked, Andrew's expression showed a little excitement and expectation.
In his opinion, there are not many things that can be called large parts. These are most likely parts from Perficott's airship.
If not, then at least something similar.
And this undoubtedly means orders and business, as well as large profits.
Perficott nodded, and then said: "I plan to build a large-scale autonomous machine for the development and construction of the northern territory. Some large-sized metal components will be used in it. If you can produce If so, I don’t need to find someone from the local area to do this
It has to be said that the industrial development of the New World is still lacking, and many things are still inferior to those in the mainland. ”
Andrew automatically ignored Purficott’s evaluation of the industrial development of the New World. He could hear from Purficott’s description how attractive the market was.
So he I just asked out of curiosity: “Can you describe how big it is? I'll have to see if the factory can make parts that big. "
"It should be about ten meters? According to my vision, this autonomous machine should be neither too big nor too small, at least equivalent to a two-story house. "Perfect described it this way, but she didn't have any detailed ideas about it yet, and could only give a rough description.
After hearing this, Andrew made a mental calculation and was sure. He nodded and said: "As long as the length does not exceed twenty meters and the width does not exceed five meters, I think my factory should be able to produce such large parts.
But considering the strength of the metal material... Lord Earl, are you sure you really need such a big thing? ”
(End of this chapter)