This kind of R&D investment does not need to be too large, because the University of Warwick itself has very good hardware conditions, and the main investment in this plan is laboratory facilities and equipment, and Dr. Schweeder hopes that this innovation center will have advanced powertrain facilities, the latest cutting-edge design and visualization and rapid prototyping technology, and can accommodate nearly 1,000 academics, R&D personnel, technicians and engineers will work here.

Yang Jie is also a man of action, and he also agrees with this plan, hoping that this innovation center can be completed in two years, and the research and development in this area can be carried out as soon as possible.

Yang Jie agrees with Jaguar Land Rover's plan to increase the number of R&D personnel, but does not want to increase the number of employees in the three factories, and now the number of workers in the three factories exceeds 7,000, and it is enough to maintain this scale.

Dr. Schweeder and Jaguar Land Rover's management have no objection to the big boss's intentions.

Now Jaguar Land Rover has become a subsidiary of Zhongyuan Automobile Group Co., Ltd., and Zhongyuan Automobile Group has indeed done very well in many aspects, and the newly established management of Jaguar Land Rover has no resistance to this.

Dr. Schweder will next carry out Jaguar Land Rover's car customization business, and is also preparing to set up a Jaguar Land Rover special vehicle operation department, and the team formed is also to report the work content to Yang Jie and Li Jianfeng.

The main goal of this department is to create three series of products: ultimate luxury, ultimate performance and ultimate off-road performance, to meet the individual needs of customers to the greatest extent, and to create exclusive vehicles for customers.

As for the price of a custom car, the price difference between a custom car and a production model is as low as £10,000, and there is no upper limit, depending on the customer's demand for luxury and high performance, imagination and financial resources.

In fact, the business of this division is quite similar to the high-performance cars of BMW Group and Mercedes-Benz, and Jaguar used to use the R series models to identify sports models to compete with them, and now this department is also the same team that was established.

However, Dr. Schweeder wants to go one step further, focusing on a high degree of customization, with its own independent small factory, to provide customers from all over the world with high-end and high-performance customized models of Jaguar and Land Rover, not modified and by no means ticked on the configuration table, absolutely personalized.

Not even the kind of luxury showroom you've seen at Bentley, facing the finest leather, wood and paint finishes.

Dr. Schweeder means that after the customer comes to the custom factory, he can immediately see the real effect of the customer's own customization through virtual technology, and the customer has a confidence in the new car when he walks out of the custom room, and then some information about the customized car can be distributed to all outlets around the world for future maintenance.

Yang Jie recognized Dr. Schweder's very creative idea, and also said that the department would let it go.

In the process of detailed discussions with the management of Jaguar Land Rover's engineering and technical department, I learned that Jaguar Land Rover had become a health technology research department before that, mainly studying motion sickness, hoping to help customers with motion sickness and nausea when driving Jaguar Land Rover cars.

Yang Jie was quite surprised to hear that there was this technical department, because motion sickness affects more than 70% of people, and many researchers have little understanding of the causes and mitigation methods, and few people will deliberately study this aspect.

Therefore, I was still very interested in this technical department, and then I also inspected this technical department.

The technical department was established two years ago and has dozens of R&D personnel, led by a professor from a medical university with extensive experience in the treatment of motion sickness, as well as several senior engineers in software and hardware.

Yang Jie learned that the professor has accumulated more than 10,000 kilometers of motion sickness data through the test sessions he designed through different age groups, and based on this data, he has developed several different seat configurations to enable passengers to find the best line of sight according to the infotainment display and turn on the cooling seat function, both of which have been proven to be effective in reducing motion sickness.

The technology department is now primarily adapting to adaptive dynamics by designing new seats, and the R&D team is now developing an automated seat control system that changes ride settings every 10 milliseconds to ensure passengers always receive a high level of comfort, eliminating low-frequency motion on the road so that passengers don't cause nausea.

Yang Jie also carefully looked at the seat designed by this technical department and found that there is a special connection mechanism between the seat and the car floor.

Professor James said to Yang Jie: "Mr. Yang, we will conduct more tests in the future, so that the adjustment of the seat can adapt to more road conditions, and at the same time, we are going to install a set of sensors on the seat that can record the passenger's biological signals and biometrics to calculate the degree of propensity of the driver and passengers to the car's illness, and the vehicle can inform the driver or passengers in advance of when motion sickness will occur, and now we have established a calculation model, but this model is not very accurate." ”

Yang Jie then also carefully understood the set of acquisition equipment developed by the technical department embedded in the headrest, embedded in the biosignal sensor electrode, which can collect the bioelectric signal of the vestibular organ of the inner ear, Professor James based on the collected data to establish a calculation model, according to different situations to judge the threshold of passenger stunning, according to this algorithm to continuously adjust the posture of the seat.

"Zhongyuan Automobile Group is also developing a system for senior drivers, including a vision-based driver monitoring system to monitor the various states of drivers, and the technology developed by this technical department can also be incorporated into this big project. ”

Yang Jie turned his head to Li Jianfeng and said.

"Yang Shao, I think the research and development project of this technical department can be further expanded, the development of a car intelligent seat, can be automatically adjusted to the best comfort experience according to the driver's body type, and detect the driver's physical health, if an accident really occurs, the car can take over the driving rights to take the passenger to a safe place, and can send the passenger's specific situation to the emergency agency or medical personnel through the on-board communication system. ”

Li Jianfeng said.

Professor James's eyes were filled with joy when he heard the interpreter's words.

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