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Chapter 145 Mechanical Dog Project

"no!"

Ignoring the sweat on her brow, Xia Ran took off her headphones and ran over. When she saw Xu Qingling running to the corner to be the drone pilot, her eyes widened in surprise.

"Why aren't you inside the building, you drone pilot?"

"Because we can't stop your offensive, it's not safe to stay in the building any longer."

Xu Qingling took off her headphones, stood up, and explained, "Whether in games or in reality, drones are tools to protect people, and the first principle is always putting people first."

Done.

Xu Qingling ignored Xia Ran's reaction, strode out of the operations room, ran up to Lin Dong, and smiled, "I'm done."

"great."

Lin Dong smiled and handed over a pack of tissues and a bottle of mineral water: "Wipe your sweat..."

"OK."

Xu Qingling nodded, took a tissue to wipe the sweat from her forehead, and handed the water to Lin Dong, saying, "I can't open it."

"Aaaaaah!"

Standing nearby, Huang Qingyao couldn't help but speak up: "Xu Qingling, you were helping me move tables at my house yesterday, and now you can't even open a bottle of water?"

"No way, you and Yueyue carried it all, I didn't lift a finger." Xu Qingling glanced at Lin Dong and quickly tried to deny it.

Lin Dong looked at Xu Qingling's expression, smiled, took the bottle of mineral water without saying anything, unscrewed the cap and handed it over, saying softly, "Let's go back."

talking.

Lin Dong waved to Li Tao and the others, then picked up his two schoolbags and walked out of the school.

Xu Qingling saw Lin Dong leave without stopping, said goodbye to Huang Qingyao and the others and hurriedly followed.

"Pah...two ungrateful bastards!"

Huang Qingyao gave a disdainful look, then turned to look at Xia Ran, who was walking out of the operations room, and said earnestly, "Xia Ran, you must train hard and beat Xu Qingling to a pulp."

"Look, if you win, someone will carry your water, someone will carry your bag, and someone will keep you company. If you lose, you get nothing."

"..."

Xia Ran was still wondering when Xu Qingling had transferred the drone pilot when she came out and heard this. She subconsciously looked at Lin Dong and Xu Qingling, who were leaving together, and her expression twitched.

"Qingyao, I'm afraid if I win, the other person not only has someone to wring out water, carry their bag, and keep them company, but also hugs and comforting them..."

"No, Qingling isn't that fragile."

Hearing this answer, Huang Qingyao couldn't help but laugh, and greeted Su Yue and the others, "Let's go, everyone go back."

the other side.

Lin Dong and his companion walked more than a hundred meters.

Suddenly, Xu Qingling raised her head and looked at Lin Dong: "Xia Ran is so talented. In just one month since the last promotion meeting, she has become so proficient in using various tactics and her operations are faster than before."

I couldn't keep up with her moves at all. If I hadn't capitalized on her desire to win, I would have lost this time.

"Yeah?"

Lin Dong glanced at Xu Qingling's eyes, seemingly sensing some kind of worry in the young girl: "Did you ask her if she knows how to do calculus?"

"Pfft—"

Xu Qingling couldn't help but laugh, then said with a hint of helplessness, "I'm serious."

"I'm telling you the truth."

Lin Dong smiled and said with an indescribable power in his voice, "Talent is the least valuable thing... well, at least that's how it is in front of me, understand?"

Xu Qingling understood the meaning behind Lin Dong's words, and the light in her eyes instantly curved into a crescent moon.

But she noticed that this was a school, not her home in the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group's residential compound, and immediately snorted, saying as if to cover up her lie: "You're just bragging. You can't even get an excellent grade on your exams."

Done.

Xu Qingling seemed to have thought of something, and said seriously, "Lin Dong, what do you think about me running for class monitor in a week?"

"sure."

Lin Dong understood that Xu Qingling had been somewhat provoked and wanted to improve herself, so he smiled and said, "Then I'll call you Class Monitor from now on."

A group of people returned to the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group's residential compound before 5:30 p.m.

Lin Dong told Xu Qingling and leisurely went to Laboratory No. 78.

These past few days, Wang Xingguo has been away from the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group base and it's inconvenient for him to log in and send emails, so the WZ-8 project can only proceed slowly according to the usual schedule.

However, Lin Dong felt it was necessary to bring out the mechanical dog project and conduct some algorithm training in advance.

"Yes, Comrade Lin Weiliang has been resting for more than a month, and his mana and health bars have been fully restored."

"That way, when Comrade Wang Xingguo returns, we won't need his help with the daily affairs of the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group base, and the mechanical dog can be handed over to him..."

Lin Dong considered several ideas and made a decision in his heart.

Now that school has started, he doesn't have much free time during his school days. In addition, he is directly or indirectly in charge of several projects and also needs to improve his super-powerful engine.

So, while we still have time, we should hurry up and perfect the mechanical dog.

Otherwise, once Wang Xingguo returns, the WZ-8 project will accelerate, leaving even less time.

Di-

Lin Dong entered the password and fingerprint, opened the laboratory door, and a blast of cold air rushed in, instantly dispelling the sweltering heat outside.

The person walked in, turned a corner, and entered the laboratory hall.

Lin Dong turned on the supercomputer in the lab, and the 32-inch monitor on the desktop and the 200-inch screen on the wall lit up at the same time. He then opened a file and entered a 48-digit password.

A lifelike mechanical dog, resembling a Chinese rural dog, with an adorable and endearing appearance, and labeled "Wangcai 001," was revealed.

It stands 38 cm tall at the shoulder, is 43 cm long, and weighs between 23 and 50 kg depending on the materials used. Its four legs feature hydraulic cushioning and elastic energy storage design.

It is equipped with laser weapons, infrared sensors, image recognition, satellite communication modules, vibration sensors, infrasound sensors, and other functional modules.

In addition, Lin Dong plans to use the previous template of Hot Hot Dog, using three high-efficiency chips to form a computing array, build a computing core with a computing power of 1 TFLOPS, and add algorithms and highly refined control code written by himself to form the core brain of this mechanical dog.

Although this computing power is less than one-tenth of that of new energy vehicles a decade or so later, it is sufficient for military design thinking and refined specialized model code. After all, the rocket processors used for the moon landing decades ago were only 512K and 1M versions, while a single image a decade or so later can be tens of megabytes in size.

"The biggest roles of robotic dogs for infantry are reconnaissance assistance and intercepting aerial drones."

"Image recognition locks onto drones, combined with lasers for interception, and infrared sensors can detect camouflaged targets in the wild."

"Vibration sensors and infrasound sensors are used in urban reconnaissance; one detects movement inside buildings, while the other locks onto the heartbeat of a hidden enemy..."

"With further breakthroughs in energy technology, or the use of small engines, we could even design a fire-assault mechanical dog that could charge into battle carrying a machine gun..."

Lin Dong slowly sorted out his combat conception for the mechanical dog, tapped his fingers next to the mouse, and after thinking for a moment, opened the core algorithm of the mechanical dog's control system.

"It still doesn't work..."

Lin Dong analyzed it carefully for a while, then frowned and closed the algorithm window again.

The algorithm is fine.

The algorithm he wrote will also be fine.

The real problem is that there is too little data, and the parameter values ​​used by the algorithm cannot perfectly adapt to the real-world environment.

Algorithms are merely the core of control.

However, to control it well, it is also necessary to feed it with various data.

Compared to drones, once the takeoff and landing processes are solved, the rest is like birds flying freely in the sky, with no obstructions in any direction.

Even with various airflows and crosswinds, this can be handled by a single aerodynamic control algorithm and fluid dynamics.

Mechanical dogs, on the other hand, run on land.

Not to mention the various complex obstacles on land.

In addition, the land also includes various types of ground environments such as cement ground, sand and gravel, muddy ground, slippery ground after rain, and grass.

Other human or vehicle activities, or even the swaying of ground plants and trees caused by the wind, can interfere with the movement of the robotic dog.

Moreover, these factors are formed in combination, unlike air currents and winds in the sky, which are all governed by the same fluid equation.

Since there is no single set of control equations, each environment requires rigorous training to obtain the corresponding algorithm control parameters.

"If it's a regular civilian mechanical dog, we can refer to the unmanned delivery vehicles of later generations and use a conservative strategy."

"If it encounters a complex situation that it can't handle, it should slow down or stop, and then restart once the situation is resolved. But what I'm designing is a combat robot dog..."

Lin Dong shook his head. Combat mechanical dogs—a conservative strategy was clearly not going to work.

After all, combat assaults require constant movement and relocation. If you suddenly slow down or stop, you become an easy target.

In severe cases, it may even hinder friendly forces from advancing from the rear, becoming an obstacle on the battlefield and slowing down the actions of comrades.

"In that case, let's use the market's monetary power."

"Let's develop a commercial robotic pet dog and get my uncle to promote it, using the civilian market to collect training data on combat robotic dogs..."

After thinking for a moment, Lin Dong quickly made a decision.

Although he can refine these training parameters one by one with the help of his soul vision.

However, the sheer scale of the project involved brings us back to the problem-solving theory we used when working on the WZ-8.

The questions are simple, but they are also very time-consuming, so it's not worth it for him to do them himself.

With that kind of energy and time, he might have even figured out nuclear fusion by now, instead of wasting it on this mechanical dog.

"Remove all combat-related modules, keep only image recognition, infrared recognition, and obstacle avoidance system, and add a voice recognition assistant, road scene recognition, traffic light recognition, and recognition of vehicles and subways."

As long as the rest of them are cute and imposing in appearance, it doesn't matter if they look silly. As long as they can move and run, that's fine...

Lin Dong muttered to himself, then started a new design plan and began to perform major surgery on the mechanical dog.

Voice assistants are not a difficult thing to develop at this time; Apple's Siri was launched last year.

He also has a well-trained voice module, although it's a bit of a moron because he didn't put much effort into it, but it's still capable of going toe-to-toe with Xiao Ai from fifteen years in the future.

Other recognition scenarios also included data and code when training the Hot Hot account.

Now, all we need to do is integrate the data and code, optimize the connections in between, and it's something we can do with our eyes closed...