Doomsday Bunker Upgrade

A standard titan? 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 strong and durable, flexible and convenient, and can adapt to various positions and environments almost like people.

Moreover, the various types of Titans make them applicable to almost most occasions, whether it is military or civilian, they all have extremely high value.

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

But the price of this thing is really not cheap.

Even if the cost of a standard Titan is simplified, it is almost the same as the latest fighter aircraft before the disaster. Before the disaster, the country was not bad for this amount of money. A large batch is used.

It is really unaffordable for the country to manufacture Titans on a large scale.

Even if Chen Xin streamlines it and reduces the cost to the price of a main battle tank, it cannot 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 original 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, which could have completely wrapped the driver, was removed, and the user was directly exposed, with only the helmet and metal frame of the exoskeleton remaining 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.

Just these two modifications have downgraded the mining titan directly from a standard titan to a mechanical frame that is only slightly better than the exoskeleton.

Of course, there are also the original high costs.

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

It is 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, the thing and the wing are connected by steel wire. Back then, the airplane was driven by the pilot's brute force, so the scene in the cartoon where the airplane's operating lever is pulled off is really It's not a nonsense, sometimes it is indeed broken, and it may not 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 for the Titan. If you want to make such a big guy of several tons move, you need to write a complex manipulation program, so that the computer installed in the cockpit can accurately recognize the driver's instructions and give feedback in time. This not only It needs to spend a lot of labor, and also needs to design a fairly 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, electronic components, circuits, mechanical transmission structures and other things are all money.

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

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

But this is also its advantage.

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.

That eight-legged Mining Titan prototype is really efficient, one can work twice as efficiently as the finalized Mining Titan, but that's based on five times the manufacturing cost and the need for a professional Titan pilot. under the premise.

Although professional Titan pilots have been trained 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 Titans produced so far.

Under such circumstances, it is obviously impossible to let the precious Titan pilots do the work of mining.

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

So in comparison, it is easy to understand why the mining titans do such a clumsy version.

However, Chen Xin is a little dissatisfied with this. This is not to say that he is dissatisfied with the design of the mining-type Titan, but that he thinks it can be improved.

Asked the researcher to pass a mining Titan that was being tested. He sat on it himself, tried to maneuver it, and compared it with the prototype he had 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, in general, mining Titans are pretty decent, although the cab... no, that can only be called the driver's seat, and the driver's complete nudity 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 the workers Wearing protective clothing will not be a problem.

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

It's just that the mining efficiency of this thing can be improved.

There is only one air pick, and this efficiency is really the same as the original manpower mining, and there is not much improvement in essence.

"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 and faced The researcher on the side said so.

However, after listening to his words, the researcher on the side asked curiously: "Academician, what do you think can be modified? It should be the most suitable look now, right? We have simplified it according to the minimum manufacturing cost. ."

"No no no, what I want to do is not to simplify its manufacturing cost, but to strengthen its work efficiency." Chen Xin shook his head, patted the mining Titan and explained to the researcher: "Your simplification It’s done very well. 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 will be a bit meaningless.

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