"What does the company mean? We are all told to listen to Hongxin. Isn't it cooperative research and development? Does it mean that we are doing something for them?" A researcher said dissatisfiedly. This is what the words explained above probably meant.
"That's right, we now have preliminary research results. In fact, we can complete the requirements without them. I don't know what the company is thinking. We must cooperate with them?"
"Hongxin's intelligent system is pretty good," said the leader. His name is Hou Xinghua, the person in charge of the Yinjiang Logistics UAV project. He is in his forties and has worked in the U.S. Amazon UAV project department. Have extensive technical experience.
Hou Xinghua has a square face and a tall body. He continued: "It would be very good if we could cooperate with them to develop an intelligent drone delivery and management system."
"But the company's intention is that Hongxin will take over the research and development and let us assist." A researcher emphasized, "This is completely different from what we asked for."
"That's what you said." Hou Xinghua comforted him, "They are here, but they are still poor and don't understand anything? When the time comes, we will still be the leader."
"Anyway, if everyone cooperates, our goal is to produce reliable research and development results. If there is a small friction, just relax."
"Hey!" An old researcher sighed and said, "I heard that Hongxin Group is now also a shareholder of our Yinjiang. Are we now considered Yinjiang's project or Hongxin's project?"
"Why do you think so much?" Hou Xinghua said, "The company has its own arrangements."
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It took a lot of effort when Lu Zixin brought people there, because the transportation here is inconvenient and there is no direct train. After getting off the expressway, he had to find a long stretch of rural road to get there.
The road was not very easy to walk on, especially since it had rained a while ago and washed out a section of the road. Lu Zixin's physical fitness is good, nothing unusual. But several senior programmers of intelligent systems developed by Hongxin Software couldn't do it and suffered from motion sickness and vomiting.
They usually work in front of computers and often stay up late. Their physical fitness is not good, so coming here is simply a kind of torture.
Fortunately, the research base was built in the town, not in the countryside, otherwise they would still suffer.
When he arrived at the place, Lu Zixin discovered that it was said to be a research base, but in fact it was very simple, like a farmyard. Apart from the necessary equipment, there were basically no other facilities.
Next to the Yinjiang Logistics UAV Research Base, there was a more modern research base, which Lu Zixin noticed as soon as he arrived.
Outside its research base, there is a sign reading: "Shunfeng Logistics Drone Nankang Pilot Research Base."
"Shunfeng's research base is three times larger than Yinjiang!" The accompanying employees lamented, "From the outside, it looks very different."
"Shunfeng is richer than Yinjiang!" said a colleague. "I heard that Yinjiang is almost ready to cancel its logistics drone research because of insufficient research funds."
Lu Zixin said: "The size of the research base is not the key. The key is to see whose finished product has better performance. This time you strive to come up with an implementable logistics drone solution as soon as possible and be ahead of other companies."
"Mr. Lu, with such rich information, there must be no problem!" The researchers were full of confidence. They had studied it in detail before coming.
Their biggest problem now is to know how to solve the problems encountered by drones in the actual logistics and transportation process, and how to cooperate with relevant departments for management and operations.
After all, Yinjiang’s team is more experienced in logistics management.
They arrived at the research base in Yinjiang. When they arrived, Hou Xinghua's team was conducting a test flight of a four-rotor logistics drone.
It was a desktop-sized drone with four mechanical rotors installed at its four corners and powered by batteries. The overall structure of the drone is very simple, with the control system and battery facilities in the middle, and the cargo loading method also uses hoisted parcel boxes.
Lu Zixin saw that the four-rotor drone carried a ten kilogram sample and took off several times, but it was not very stable. It was obvious that the balance system was not done well. In such a state, once it encounters bad weather such as wind and rain, it will definitely be... Unable to fly.
"Hongxin's team is here?" People at the research base noticed the incoming car, and Hou Xinghua led people out to greet it.
After introducing themselves to each other, specific communication and work arrangements began.
In this regard, Lu Zixin did not intervene, but just listened and wanted to understand some problems in the research so that he could arrange and solve them.
Hou Xinghua said: "We have already had preliminary research results on logistics drones. Our single-rotor logistics drones can transport small packages of three to five kilograms, with a transportation radius of about six kilometers."
"The quad-rotor logistics drone has not yet been perfected, but it is expected to be able to transport five to ten kilograms of logistics packages with a transportation radius of about ten kilometers after completion, which can meet more than 80% of the logistics distribution in the express package industry."
"We are also very happy to cooperate with you this time. We have always heard that Hongxin is very good in intelligent systems and semiconductor research. We hope to get the most advanced drone control and management system, as well as drone equipment. sensor equipment.”
"We are also very happy to cooperate with you. You are experts in this aspect." The person in charge of Hongxin also said, "However, our plan may be slightly different from yours."
"What specific aspect is it?" Hou Xinghua asked.
The person in charge of Hongxin looked at Yinjiang's team and said slowly: "We believe that rotor-type drones are not suitable for our research goals. We need to redesign a new logistics drone to not only meet the needs of remote areas. Logistics and distribution needs can be more applied to urban air transportation systems.”
"What?" After hearing what he said, not only Hou Xinghua, but also the entire Yinjiang R&D team was stunned.
According to what he meant, this completely negated the research results of the Yinjiang team. Start over
Even though Hou Xinghua had a good temper, he had to get angry at this time. He immediately said: "What do you mean? The rotary-wing drone we developed cannot be said to be the best in the world, but it is definitely the best." !”
“When I was in Amazon’s drone project department, the performance of their current commercial logistics drones was similar to our research results!”
Another researcher from Yinjiang also asked: "What you think is too unrealistic! Logistics drones cannot enter large cities at this stage. First of all, the cost is not as good as manual labor, let alone noise pollution, safety hazards, traffic Manage these!”
"I hope you can seriously consider it and consider the actual situation!"