Chapter 1126 Remote Control Technology and Autonomous Control Technology

Hearing Wu Hao's words, everyone nodded in approval. Indeed, the examples cited by Wu Hao are also the most likely in reality. If you have this system, you can avoid these accidents.

At this point, Director Song of the flight test center did not have any opinions, and nodded in agreement.

Seeing that everyone had no intention of speaking, Qi Deputy Director of the Aeronautical Technology and Aircraft Design and Research Institute, who was the presiding officer of the meeting, said to everyone.

"There is no need to question this project, and there is no need to question it. If nothing else, let's just say that the project has been officially established. Since the project has been established, then we do not have to question it, but put all our minds on the research and development of this project. ”

Speaking of this, Deputy Director Qi glanced at Director Song, and then continued: "What we are doing is the research and development of unmanned technology for large aircraft, that is, medium and large aircraft.

I think the biggest difference between manned and unmanned technology is whether the aircraft is controlled by humans or by systems.

In unmanned technology, it can also be subdivided into two fields: autonomous control flight or remote control flight.

The vast majority of drones we are currently familiar with are basically remotely controlled.

That is, through ground remote control, the drone is controlled to take off and land and perform a series of tasks.

And in this remote control flight technology, there are also differences. In general, the traditional remote control technology is to set up a remote control station on the ground, or a command and control center. Pilots who have been specially trained to fly drones, or veteran pilots who have been transferred or retired, are in charge of piloting.

This is equivalent to piloting a drone remotely, and all the actions of the drone need to be controlled remotely by the pilot.

The more advanced ones are more automated and intelligent, for example, drones have the ability to take off and land autonomously. The surface does not need a ground pilot to control and drive, only needs to issue commands, and the drone will autonomously complete the scheduled actions such as taxiing, take-off or landing, taxiing, etc.

For example, drones do not require ground piloting intervention, can fly according to a predetermined route, and can also adjust the aircraft's attitude and corresponding data according to meteorological conditions.

This allows the driver to concentrate on other tasks, such as ground reconnaissance or strike missions.

And what about autonomous control technology, which means that drones have the ability to think for themselves. It can autonomously complete a series of actions and tasks, such as autonomous take-off and landing, autonomously perform some reconnaissance and strike tasks, and autonomously deal with some emergencies.

Highly intelligent, autonomous, unmanned. Human beings do not need to intervene directly, they only need to give relevant instructions or orders.

For example, flying from Airport A to Airport B, to scout the target area, or to strike related targets, etc.

As long as you give a command, the drone will autonomously think, capture, confirm, lock, attack and so on on the target. ”

Speaking of this, Deputy Director Qi took a sip of water, then glanced at Wu Hao, and then continued: "So in which direction is our project going to develop, is it autonomous control technology or remote control technology."

Remote control technology is relatively mature for us at this stage, and the technical threshold is relatively low.

At present, a large number of our UAVs are using this technology, and related technologies have been developed relatively maturely.

We just need to transfer it to medium and large aircraft, and of course, this is not to say that the technology is simple.

In fact, this transfer installation alone involves a lot of problems, especially for medium-sized heavy aircraft, which is more technically difficult.

As for the autonomous control technology, it is necessary to rely solely on the aircraft itself for flight control, and the outside world does not intervene.

To be honest, R&D is very difficult and very risky. However, the advantages of this technology are incomparable with remote control driving technology, and both technical achievements and economic benefits are very huge. ”

After speaking, Deputy Director Qi looked at everyone and smiled slightly: "Actually, you don't have to make a choice, because the leaders above have already helped us set the direction."

That is, the combination of remote control driving and autonomous control driving, and the research and development of remote control driving technology, which is relatively less difficult, is carried out first. After the good results of the remote control driving technology, the research on autonomous control driving technology will be carried out.

In this way, we can say that we can take into account the advantages of both technologies, and we can see results in a short period of time.

In addition, it can not only take into account military needs, but also meet economic benefits, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results for all parties.

And the added benefit of this is that we can attract more money to invest in the R&D process.

Although we are not short of research funding at present, this project is extremely difficult, requiring not only a large amount of research funding and resources, but also a long research cycle.

In this way, it is obviously not enough to rely only on the investment of Haoyu Technology Company and our aviation industry group, or the funding support of the military and aviation departments.

But if we bring other airlines and even some air logistics companies into it, then we don't have to worry about the cost. And with the continuous investment of these funds, it can also reduce the burden on several of us. ”

Hearing Deputy Director Qi's words, everyone focused their eyes on Wu Hao. Deputy Director Qi represents the attitude of the airline, and the rest are the military and aviation departments, and they naturally have no problem with this. They would even be happy to see these airlines on board, which could save them a lot of money.

Then only Haoyu Technology or Wu Hao are left, these airlines have joined in, and they can indeed share a large part of the investment in scientific research.

But at the same time, it also means that these airlines and air logistics companies will also divide the large economic interests that originally belonged to them.

So for Wu Hao, this proposal has pros and cons.

Facing everyone's eyes, Wu Hao quickly thought about it in his mind for a while, then glanced at everyone, and said with a smile: "Of course I like to see that it can save us a lot of scientific research funds, but in some details of cooperation, I hope to be able to negotiate well."

As a private commercial company, we certainly have our social responsibility, but our most important task is to make a profit.

It may seem like I'm a bit snobbish or even ignorant, but we also have our own difficulties. After all, a huge company needs me to support it, and tens of thousands of people need to eat. ”