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Chapter 507 Factory Acquisition and Improved Algorithms

In fact, Luo Ming and Rong Mu did not just come up with the idea of ​​making a sweeping robot the first physical product of Zhuoguang Technology. There are three reasons:

The factories they acquired had ready-made production lines and there was no need to spend money on additional investment.

Second, a sweeping robot can more conveniently collect environmental and obstacle data, and test and upgrade environmental recognition and obstacle recognition algorithms.

Because the places with the most obstacles are definitely the rooms of humans. The "road conditions" when the sweeping robot passes by are much more complicated than on the highway, and new obstacles may appear at any time.

Only in such a scenario can obstacle recognition and environment recognition algorithms be better trained.

The last step is to provide technical reserves for subsequent autonomous driving technologies. From the very beginning, Luo Ming planned to upgrade the path recognition of the sweeping robot, allowing the sweeping robot to plan its own route in a mode similar to autonomous driving technology. In this way, the sweeping robot is actually an unmanned car.

The more sweeping robots are running, the more relevant data Zhuoguang will obtain. With so much data, Zhuoguang Technology may become the first company to truly possess L3 driving technology.

After everyone took a tour of the robot vacuum cleaner production workshop, Luo Ming nodded with satisfaction: "I think this factory is very good in all aspects. How is the price of wood being negotiated?"

"The factory director holds 70% of the factory's shares, and the remaining 30% of the shares are distributed to the factory workers in the form of dividends.

The factory manager is willing to sell the factory to us, but he still wants to stay and work in the factory, so he wants to keep some shares.

I discussed it with him and agreed to let him keep 3% of the shares, and we would acquire 67% of the shares and take absolute control.

As for letting him stay in the factory to work, I agreed and planned to let him be responsible for the factory's logistics, including security and canteen.

The original valuation of the entire factory was 3.5 million, and the 67% stake was 2.345 million. Since I agreed to his two conditions, he said 2.3 million would be enough. "

"When can the acquisition be completed?" Luo Ming asked.

"Any time is fine. I asked you to come here just to confirm with you. If you have no objection, the acquisition can be completed immediately."

"I have no objection, what about you, Wenwen?" Luo Ming asked.

"I have no objection. You decide." Lin Shuwen replied.

"Okay, that's settled. I'll go and finalize the purchase contract with the factory manager tomorrow."

"By the way, do you have a candidate for the new factory director Mu Tou?" Luo Ming asked.

"No, what do you think?" Rong Mu asked back.

"Neither do I. I am asking if you think that all the talents in our company are engaged in the Internet industry and we don't have talents in this field."

"Don't worry, if it doesn't work out, we can find a headhunter to hire one."

“Well, this is also a solution.”

The next day, Rongmu completed the acquisition of the factory and renamed it Zhuoguang Electronics.

As for the new factory director, Luo Ming and Rong Mu held a meeting at the company to discuss it and asked the company's senior management if anyone was willing to volunteer. In the end, no one was willing to go.

In desperation, Rong Mu could only find a headhunting company and offer a high price to poach people.

As the saying goes, there is always a brave man when there is a big reward.

Just two days later, the headhunting company delivered two documents to Rong Mu's desk.

The two people, a man and a woman, are both 37 years old.

The man is called Lv Yunming. He is currently the deputy director of a machinery factory that produces CNC machine tools. He himself also has a senior professional title.

I have been working in the mechanical processing industry for 15 years and have extensive experience. I also know many technical experts in the industry.

The factory director retired some time ago, and it was reasonable for Lu Yunming, the deputy director, to be promoted to a regular employee. However, the head office sent someone in instead, and I heard that he was the son of their company's major shareholder.

This made Lu Yunming very angry, and he immediately chose to resign.

As soon as Lu Yunming left, the factory could not operate at all and several production lines were paralyzed. Their company immediately sent people to invite Lu Yunming, but he refused.

Now there are eight companies that want Lu Yunming, including Zhuoguang Technology, and the competition is quite fierce.

The woman is called Xu Haiyan. If Lu Yunming is good at technical skills, Xu Haiyan is good at factory operation and management.

The previous company that Xu Haiyan worked for was also a mechanical processing company. Its scale was not as large as Lu Yunming's, but the scale of their factories was similar.

Xu Haiyan and her previous company broke up peacefully. Xu Haiyan went to have her second child. The company could not be without a factory director for a day. After she gave birth to the child and returned, she would no longer be the factory director.

So Xu Haiyan simply chose to resign. Now that her second son is already one year old, Xu Haiyan has chosen to make a comeback. But compared to Lu Yunming, Xu Haiyan did not receive much attention, and the headhunting company felt that the chances of recruiting Xu Haiyan were greater.

Luo Ming and Rong Mu discussed for a while and decided to give it a try.

The first person they looked for was Lu Yunming, but he was so popular that some companies had already offered him an annual salary of one million plus 3% of the equity.

This salary exceeded Rongmu's psychological expectations, so Rongmu directly asked a headhunting company to recruit Xu Haiyan.

The deal with Xu Haiyan was concluded very smoothly. Xu Haiyan's monthly salary was 5 yuan, 16 salaries a year, plus various miscellaneous benefits, which made a total of one million yuan a year. He also received 1% of the factory's equity incentive.

Xu Haiyan was very satisfied with this condition, and the people from the headhunting company immediately took Xu Haiyan to Zhuoguang Technology to meet Luo Ming and Rong Mu.

When Luo Ming first met Xu Haiyan, he was somewhat surprised because Xu Haiyan was much younger than he thought.

You have to know that Xu Haiyan is already 37 years old and is the mother of two children. Logically, she should look older.

What Luo Ming didn't expect was that people would believe that Xu Haiyan was less than 30 years old.

Rong Mu didn't care how well Xu Haiyan's face was maintained. He went straight to the point and asked Xu Haiyan about her views on factory management.

Xu Haiyan started her answer by starting with protecting the basic rights of workers, and covered everything from workers to factory executives.

Her answer satisfied Rong Mu very much, and he appointed her as the factory director of Zhuoguang Electronics on the spot.

"Thank you, Mr. Luo and Mr. Rong, for your trust. I will work hard to manage the place and will never let you down." Xu Haiyan said confidently.

"Okay, then Director Xu, I'll leave Zhuoguang Electronics to you."

The next day, Rong Mu took Xu Haiyan to Zhuoguang Electronics, introduced her to the old people in the factory, and then turned and left.

How to win over these old foxes in the future is Xu Haiyan's own business. Rong Mu will not interfere. This is also one of the tests for her.

Xu Haiyan took office, and Luo Ming continued to devote himself to his work.

After Luo Ming and Rong Mu discussed it and decided to make a sweeping robot, Luo Ming began to work on improving the path algorithm of the sweeping robot and the battery power control algorithm. It has been about half a month.

Today's sweeping robots can use lidar scanning to perceive the surrounding environment, and then generate a cleaning path through an algorithm to command the sweeping robot to complete the path cleaning.

However, how to plan the path is very important. The simplest path planning can ensure that the sweeping robot can complete the cleaning task of the entire indoor space in a short time.

What Luo Ming needs to do is to upgrade the path planning algorithm so that the cleaning path planned by the algorithm can be the optimal solution as much as possible. At the same time, he also needs to give the sweeping robot the function of automatic route planning and automatic obstacle avoidance.

Luo Ming certainly cannot handle such a complex algorithm upgrade alone, and the technical department must also help.

Tong Mingwei has always been very interested in this area. After learning about Luo Ming's needs, he immediately studied the relevant papers on SLAM algorithms on the market and soon came up with ideas for upgrades.

After Tong Mingwei and Luo Ming communicated with each other, they selected 20 people to form a team and started working.

Luo Ming opened the editor and started editing the algorithm code with the team organized by Tong Mingwei.

Compared with the big data algorithm we did before, the algorithm upgrade of the sweeping robot is completely different, but it is also much easier than the big data algorithm. With the concerted efforts of everyone, it took 10 days to complete the first version of the path planning algorithm.

After the algorithm was completed, Tong Mingwei tested the algorithm using simulated data.

After several rounds of bug fixing, the algorithm is now considered to be initially completed.

While Luo Ming and his team were upgrading the path algorithm, other teams were responsible for the battery power management of the sweeping robot.

Luo Ming already had an idea about how to manage battery energy.

He plans to monitor the remaining power of the battery. When the remaining power is greater than the set first threshold, the first power output plan will be adopted; when the remaining power is less than the first threshold and greater than the second threshold, the second power output plan will be adopted.

Using this stepped power output solution can ensure that the sweeping robot can maintain working status for a longer time when the remaining battery energy is low.

This solution is not complicated to implement. After Luo Ming and his team completed the path algorithm upgrade, the power management algorithm was also completed.

After the basic algorithm was finalized, Rongmu found a sweeping robot previously produced by Zhuoguang Electronics the day before the National Day holiday, and replaced the camera originally installed on the sweeping robot with a camera equipped with face recognition, obstacle recognition, and environment recognition algorithms.

Tong Mingwei then installed the remaining algorithms on the sweeping robot. After some debugging, Zhuoguang Technology’s first sweeping robot was officially completed.

Although it looks a bit abstract due to so many modifications, the functions of this sweeping robot should be very powerful. Luo Ming immediately called Lin Shuwen and asked him to come to the company to watch the first test of the sweeping robot.

(End of this chapter)