Doomsday Bunker Upgrade Chapter 488: Increase efficiency while reducing costs

Are the standard Titans good? Of course good!

In the previous earthquake relief in the southwest region, the excellent performance of the Titan has proved the excellence of this large humanoid mechanical vehicle.

They are robust, flexible, and adaptable to a variety of jobs and environments almost like humans.

And a variety of different types of Titans make them almost applicable to most occasions, whether it is military or civilian, they have a very high value.

This is also the reason why the state intends to mass-produce the standard Titan even though it is expensive.

But it doesn't come cheap.

No matter how streamlined the cost of a standard Titan is, it is almost the same as the latest fighter jet before the disaster. Before the disaster, the country was not bad for the same amount of money, but in the current environment, it can only be said to bite I gritted my teeth and made a small batch for use.

Made Titans on a large scale, which is really unaffordable for the country.

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

This is also the reason why although Chen Xin has provided the country with a lot of high-tech and good things, the country still repurposes and reuses the old things.

It's not that I don't want to use good things, but I really can't use them.

So on the Mining Titan project, the design team adhered to only one basic principle, that is, it is cheap and can be mass-produced.

The buffer cockpit that could have completely wrapped the driver has been removed and replaced with a helmet and metal frame that exposes the user directly, with only an exoskeleton for protection.

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

These two modifications alone have downgraded the mining titan from a standard titan to a mechanical frame that is only slightly better than an exoskeleton.

Of course, there are also the original high costs.

The price of the Titan itself is expensive, of course, has a lot to do with its driving mode.

It's a metal creation weighing several tons. Even if there are various power-assisted machinery inside to make this behemoth move, it is not something that can be pulled manually by the driver.

It's like the joystick of an airplane. In old-fashioned airplanes, this thing and the wing were connected by steel wires. Back then, the airplane was driven by the pilot's brute force, so the airplane's joystick in the cartoon broke. The footage is really not made up, and sometimes it is indeed broken, and it may not necessarily be pulled.

The joysticks of modern aircraft have hydraulic or electronic assistance. The larger the aircraft, the more complicated this aspect is, and the higher the cost will naturally be.

The same is true of the Titan. To make this several-ton giant move, it is necessary to write a complex manipulation program, so that the computer installed in the cockpit can accurately recognize the driver's instructions and give timely feedback , which not only requires a lot of labor, but also requires the design of a rather complex operating system.

Not the one on the computer, but the system that operates the entire Titan.

This thing is the bulk of the cost. After all, every electronic component, circuit, mechanical transmission structure and other things are money.

But it's easy to replace it with an exoskeleton. Several metal hydraulic connecting rods and a set of force-sensing feedback modules work together.

Compared to a standard Titan, the combined cost of a mining Titan is not as expensive as a standard Titan's cockpit.

But that's also its strength.

The purpose of this thing is to improve the mining efficiency of the mine, which means that the miners can mine more ore per unit time.

The eight-legged mining titan prototype is really efficient, one can work twice as efficiently as the finalized mining titan, but this is based on five times the manufacturing cost and the need for a professional titan under the premise of the driver.

Although professional titan pilots have been cultivated all the time, and even a training base has been built near the scientific research center, but the number is not large, only a little more than the total number of titan produced so far.

Under such circumstances, it is obviously impossible to send the precious Titan pilots to work such as mining.

The optimal solution should be to directly allocate mining Titans to grassroots miners to directly improve their work efficiency.

So in comparison, it's easy to understand why the mining titans are doing so much.

However, Chen Xin is a little dissatisfied with this. It's not that he is dissatisfied with the design of the mining titan, but that he thinks it can be improved.

Ask the researcher for a mining titan that is being tested. He sits on it himself, tries to maneuver it, and compares it with the prototype he has sat on before.

I have to say that the contrast is really strong, and the driving comfort is really a heaven and an earth.

Of course, generally speaking, the mining titan is just fine, although the cab... no, that can only be called the driver's seat, and the completely naked driver is not a "room".

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

The crude exoskeleton is also easy to maneuver, and it only takes a day or two of training to fully master its use.

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

There is only one air pick ~IndoMTL.com~ This efficiency is really the same as the original manpower mining, and there is not much substantial improvement.

"Contact the mining department and ask them to arrange a mine. We need to take this mining titan to the field for testing. I always feel that it still has room for improvement." Chen Xin got off the mining titan , said to the researcher beside him.

However, after listening to his words, the researcher on the side asked curiously: "Academician, do you think there is any place that can be modified? It should be the most suitable now, right? This is already our minimum manufacturing cost. Simplified."

"No, no, no, what I want to do is not to simplify its manufacturing cost, but to enhance its work efficiency." Chen Xin shook his head and patted the mining titan and explained to the researcher: " Your simplification is very good, its cost is indeed effectively reduced, but the mining efficiency is also reduced, right? Although it is right and necessary to reduce the cost, but if the efficiency is too low, it is a bit unrealistic It makes sense.

So I'm going to take this mining titan to the mine to test it out to see how efficiently it actually works and if there's room for improvement. "

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