Chapter 43: The ......... How, exactly?

"Comrades, this is based on the new generation of swarm UAV system proposed by Comrade Wang Fan, compared with the last time, this time there is already a part of the mature transformation plan."

"Comrade Wang Fan has improved part of the code on the original basis."

"The specific parameters and specific data are on the document in front of you, you will go through it roughly, and if there are any problems, we will focus on the discussion later."

in the departmental conference room.

Xu Mingjun, the person in charge of the assembly department, pointed to the documents on the table and said calmly, his eyes were unprecedentedly serious.

The voice fell.

With the sound of paper flipping through the pages, the staff present opened the document and read it bit by bit from front to back.

"Control more than 1,000 drones at a time."

"This ......... Wouldn't it be an exaggeration? ”

It took about seven or eight minutes.

One of the staff members asked to himself: "With such a large number of multi-threads advancing at the same time, can our hardware handle it?" ”

"In order to ensure the weight of the drone, the requirements per unit volume are destined to make it impossible for us to integrate too high-performance MCUs on it, and the control performance it can achieve is limited, how can we control so many terminals at the same time?"

"At the moment, we can only control a maximum of 100 units."

"At most, it can only reach 115 at most in overloaded operation, and once this number is exceeded, there will be a crash problem."

At this time, someone else picked up the words and agreed.

"yes."

"After all, the swarm UAV system is not only as simple as controlling the drone, but also has to really achieve various flight actions, as well as temporary response plans for the specific environment, and the addition of a new action, once enlarged to hundreds or even thousands, will have a very large load on the MCU."

"You also said that you missed a point, according to the data, once the swarm master control system controls more than 100 drones, the requirements for performance will increase geometrically, at least doubled."

"And very importantly, the requirements for software compatibility are also very high."

Another participant chimed in.

Next, one by one, the staff members spoke one after another.

Their first reaction to the performance and data described in the file on the desktop is not to believe it, because from their professional point of view, it is currently unachievable and impossible.

Listen to the people below.

Xu Mingjun and Chen Qiang glanced at each other and nodded at the same time:

"I know what you mean."

"Let's watch a video."

"This is the latest improvement of the 795 base on the UAV swarm system."

"Of course, it is only a partial improvement, and it cannot achieve the control of more than 1,000 units." Xu Mingjun said as he turned on the big screen in front of him, and at the same time motioned for Chen Qiang to insert the USB flash drive:

"But even that's more than we can control at the moment."

As soon as the words fell.

The video on the screen will play automatically.

The first thing that catches everyone's eye is a specially made small pterodactyl drone, with a streamlined appearance, painted in white and black colors, and a space of about 0.5 square meters under the drone, which is specially used to place objects.

They were densely parked on the runway, and if you counted them, you would know that there were definitely no less than two or three hundred of them.

"Please enter the command:"

A reminder sounds in the video.

"Connect the phased original array radar and turn on the radar lock."

Another voice rang out, giving specific instructions.

If Wang Fan was present at this moment, he would clearly hear that this was his own voice.

"Opening...... Opened

"Capture the marker."

"Capturing, locked!"

"Cluster destroyed!"

With the last order in the video.

The pieces of frisbees marked as markers were quickly shot out of the frisbee machine, and in an instant, the drone swarm that was originally parked on the runway came to life in an instant, wrapped in bursts of air buzzing, and quickly rose to the sky.

Derived from an improved control system.

So that the corresponding UAV can get close to the target in the fastest time.

And complete the action.

"Didi ......"

The whole process took less than 8 seconds, and the result was announced with a big victory for the swarm drone.

More than three hundred frisbees, all of which were shot down without exception.

For a while, after watching the video, the entire conference room was silent, you looked at me, I looked at you, there was no sound, everyone's mouths opened slightly, indicating the shock in their hearts for a while.

Are you kidding?

This is not 100 units, but a swarm of more than 300 drones.

Judging by the degree of its intelligence, it has far exceeded what is currently being promoted in the army.

And some staff members have noticed one point very keenly, that is, the number of drone swarms in the video is always greater than the number of frisbees, but when it comes to action, not all of them rush up without rhythm.

Some of the drones did not execute the command at the same time.

Just hover around.

"This ......... The number of drone swarms exceeds the number of frisbees. ”

"How do you achieve orderly control?"

Someone asked.

As soon as the words were spoken, many technical staff members focused their eyes at the same time.

The meaning in the eyes is self-evident.

They also want to know.

Xu Mingjun glanced at Chen Qiang, who stood up with a smile and explained:

"This is the optimal solution judgment made by the control program of the queen bee's main system."

"To put it simply, when the main control makes a judgment, the system will automatically allocate an extra part of the drone to wait."

"If the previous drone is not executed within the specified time of the system, then the subsequent waiting drone will quickly make up for it and take over the instructions of the previous one."

This command sounds simple, and even feels very easy to complete.

But in the actual operation process, all the staff here are very aware of the difficulty, because it involves a series of judgment and cycle problems.

"This ...... How? ”

"Large-scale judgment loops have spread to hundreds or thousands of units."

"It's definitely not something that the MCU integrated on the drone can handle."

One of the technicians shook their heads, looking incredulous.

"Could it be that you are connected to a supercomputer at the same time?"

Someone put forward their own ideas.

"It can't be."

"Connect to a supercomputer, just if there's a communication network."

"But in the process of using swarm drones, most of the environments we set are no network, or even no signal, this kind of local area network can only be composed of drones as a single intermediary, not to mention supercomputers, even if it is a communication relay satellite, it may not be able to connect."

Someone quickly refuted it, disagreeing with the conjecture just now.

"That......... How, exactly, is this done? ”

A technical master of the general assembly department, with a serious face at this time, asked Chen Qiang, who was sitting in front of him, with a straight face.