Doomsday Bunker Upgrade

The foreman is indeed better at using air picks than the previous drivers. After understanding how to operate the mining titan, he quickly used the air pick equipped on the mining titan to continue on the rock wall in front of them. The work was interrupted, and soon a rock wall was broken into a ground of rubble.

It's just that when the foreman planned to clean up the mined ores as usual, he found that the equipment on his body restricted his movements and froze there for a while.

"You can pick up the ore and put it in the hopper at the back." The researcher thought he didn't know where to put the ore, so he reminded him aloud.

But Chen Xin patted him and said, "He can't bend down and pick up the ore on the ground."

After being reminded by Chen Xin, the researcher immediately reacted, and hurriedly came to the foreman's side, glanced at the equipment on him, and hurriedly said: "He is wearing ordinary protective clothing, life support equipment on his back and simplified The structure of the machine resisted, so he couldn't bend down, in the original design, he could squat down to pick up ore."

For this explanation, Chen Xin nodded understandingly. This is not a strange thing. After all, it is a Titan. Even if it is a simplified version of the beggar, it is very simple to carry a set of life support equipment on it.

However, in Chen Xin's opinion, such a design is not practical, because the protective suit itself has life support equipment, and it would be redundant to redesign a new protective suit in order to drive the Titan.

As for how this is now designed like this... Titan drivers are not wearing protective clothing, but Titan's driving suits. The life support equipment on their bodies is different from the structure of ordinary protective clothing.

This kind of problem is actually quite common in design, because when researchers first design something, they first consider to achieve the core goal, solve whether there are any problems, and then make improvements on the basis of achieving the core goal, adding other design goals.

Everything can still be modified before finalizing it, and that's what testing is for.

Find out the deficiencies or unreasonable places and make corrections.

However, watching the foreman untied the fixed connection on his body with the help of the researcher and the Titan driver, and got off the mining Titan, Chen Xin frowned and came to the simplified version of the Titan, beckoning a few people to move away, himself After picking up a large piece of ore on the ground and putting it in the hopper, he asked the foreman, "How many times do you have to repeat this kind of work a day?"

"We haven't counted these, but there are always dozens of times a day. This is related to the hardness of the rock wall and the efficiency of our work." The foreman looked a little cautious when facing Chen Xin.

Chen Xin nodded, looked at the researcher, and asked him, "I saw that the prototype also had Daao assisting in loading and unloading ore. Why did the simplified machine remove this design?"

"This..." The researcher was taken aback by Chen Xin's question, and after a while, he explained: "The design is not very stable, and the operation is a bit complicated, it is not very convenient, and considering the cost, so the simplified version is used. This design was cancelled and changed to what it is now.”

Hearing what the researcher said, Chen Xin shook his head helplessly and said to him, "Although it is important to simplify the structure and reduce costs, you have gone too far! No matter how complicated the design is, it is better than simply bending over to pick up stones like this. Save your energy?"

"Ah, it's because we didn't think about it carefully." Although he didn't change the design, the researcher had no choice but to take the blame.

In fact, during the previous laboratory testing phase, the mining titan initially kept the auxiliary robotic arm to collect the ore, which was then loaded directly into the ore hopper at the back.

However, because it is a mine bucket, not the mine cabin used on the standard Titan, there are some differences in structure between the two, which also leads to when the simplified machine lowers its predecessor and uses two robotic arms to collect ore, the mine bucket The ore will slide out of it.

Although it is said that adding a partition can solve the problem, in order to simplify the design and add the actual test, the driver did not feel any inconvenience when bending over to pick up stones, so they also removed the relatively complicated ones. Robotic arm design.

However, after hearing what Chen Xin said at this time, the researcher also realized that he thought it was wrong.

During the experimental test, they just broke a simulated stone made of cement. Even if they were broken with an air pick, it would only be broken into a few pieces, and it was really easy to pick up the exoskeleton. thing.

But for the workers in the mines, this means they have to bend dozens or even hundreds of times a day.

The equipment originally designed for workers to improve production efficiency and reduce labor intensity has actually increased the fatigue level of workers. Such a design is undoubtedly not desirable.

So after Chen Xin pointed this out, the researcher quickly realized the problem, so he took the initiative to take the blame.

However, taking the blame is not to perfunctory this matter, the researcher quickly asked Chen Xin: "Academician, do you think it should be added back to the original mechanical arm design?"

"I don't have the right to say this, I have to ask the master worker." Chen Xin pointed to the foreman standing in front of him, and said to the researcher: "Whether it's good or not can only be given after the actual users have used it. The most intuitive answer is whether to change it to a structure with a robotic arm to assist in collecting ore, or let him see what is going on."

"Okay, I understand." The researcher nodded and didn't say anything more. He just looked at the passageway behind where everyone had just come, waiting for the arrival of the prototype.

It's just that after waiting for a while, the prototype did not come down, but the driver himself got down from the elevator on the side.

"Sorry academician! The prototype body is too big, and it got stuck when it came down." The pilot of the prototype was helpless and frustrated. He finally got a chance to drive the Titan, but he got stuck because of his size. This is disgraceful.

When Chen Xin heard this, the expression on his face was also surprised, and he asked in surprise: "How did you get stuck? Where did you get stuck?"

"It's in the tunnel above. I originally came in very smoothly, and I didn't encounter any obstacles, but the tunnel from above suddenly narrowed and the machine got stuck." The driver said this, but also a look of grievance. .

It was originally just a test, and since all the previous passages passed smoothly, he was sloppy, but he didn't expect that because the light was too dark, he didn't notice the sudden narrowing of the tunnel in front of him, so he was stuck by the wall of the tunnel. .