360. Seven-star car
After the holiday, under Lu Zhou's instruction, Qixing Laboratory joined hands with two chip companies in the Menggu system, Zhennan Xindong and Lizhi Technology, and the three companies reached a consensus with Beijing Post and Telecommunications to establish a cooperative laboratory. In the following years, the entire project investment was mainly dominated by Qixing, and the entire investment was about 30 million yuan.
As for money, Seven Star Laboratory only knows how to spend money and can’t make money. In the end, Weixun paid money to inject Seven Stars.
However, it is still a key chip field related to the development of Menggu artificial intelligence, and it still cannot save these 30 million. If possible, Luzhou is more willing to increase investment. However, WeChat does not have so much financial support.
Although Zhen Nanxindong and Lizhi Technology don’t have much money and they all get the money from Menggu, they were still a chip company before and still have the foundation. This is a bit useful to build a chip-related research laboratory, and it is still a bit useful to call these two companies. At least it contributes some industry experience.
At this time, Lu Zhou followed Lu Ming to the location of the Muniu project in the laboratory.
When the Seven Star was first established, only Lu Ming presided over the parts related to artificial intelligence and algorithms. Later, related research fields were constantly expanding.
The part hosted by Lu Ming later established the project independently as Wolong. Now, the results of Wolong have come to the eyes of the world, which is the "longyan" that made a stunning success in Brother Gu's challenge a while ago. You must know that the one who ran at that time was only part of the longan.
What the Muniu project does is more related to mechanical hardware.
For example, what Lu Ming wants to take a boat to visit today is a "unmanned vehicle" project!
The two walked into the office of the Muniu Project, and several people were conducting various experiments.
Lu Zhou looked at the "torna rush" in the hands of several people, "This is the car you made, right?"
Of course, this unmanned car is right or wrong.
The leader was an older male researcher with a scumbag-shaped beard and a messy hairstyle.
The other party noticed Lu Ming and then said, "Lu Bo."
Lu Ming nodded, "Well, tell him."
The leader said, "Well. The car is built with Lego bricks, equipped with a camera and various sensors. These data will be returned in real time. After the return, it will be processed on the hardware here."
He said, pointing at several workstations beside him.
When Lu Zhou looked at it, he directly recognized these computers. These are the equipment used by Wolong to train AI every day.
The other party continued, "We built a training system with a longan framework. After the data on the car is retrieved and returned, it can be used as a data set after a certain amount of processing. Finally, the entire model makes decisions on the vehicle's next action."
Luzhou, "Can it be understood that the camera identifies the roadblock you set up, the system confirms that it is a roadblock, and then gives the car the order to turn?"
The researcher said, "It's roughly this process. We have also considered using laser lasers, which may make the entire recognition more accurate. There is no problem with building block cars, but if you use physical cars in the future, the cost will be a bit too high."
When Lu Zhou heard this, he remembered that Brother Gu’s unmanned vehicle seemed to be using this thing.
Lu Zhou rubbed his chin, thought about it for a while and said, "I think the camera is cheap, but it is only suitable for use as an auxiliary tool."
Lu Ming was curious after hearing this, "Oh? Actually, I think Muniu has done a pretty good job. Although AI's ability is still limited now, I think as long as it reaches a certain level of training, it will definitely meet the requirements."
Lu Zhou shook his head and said, "Maybe it's difficult."
Lu Ming, "Hmm? What do you mean?"
Luzhoudao, "You see, the image processing of the camera takes up a very large part of the time during the whole process. If we place the processing in the cloud, this may need to consider the delay. If not, then we need to consider the car. However, in the case of the car, the energy that can be carried has an upper limit, and then there is naturally an upper limit for computing power."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Zhou thought about it and said, "But these are all small problems. After all, I am concerned about when I can start researching from building block cars."
Researcher smiled, "In fact, you can start anytime, but everyone has not had much experience at the beginning, so they used this method to reduce costs. However, if Muniu wants to start carrying and trying on a real car, there will be several problems."
Luzhoudao, "Talk. If you can solve it, solve it."
The other party said, "One is personnel, and it is definitely a must for researcher in automobile engineering; the other is that it needs to purchase various hardware equipment on a large scale. We will then make a list of this; in the end, it is a site issue."
Lu Zhou's forehead wrinkled after hearing this. The first two items were simple, but he was not sure what to do with the last item.
He said, "Do you have any plans for this venue?"
Lu Ming said, "In fact, the traffic flow in the university town is very small. As long as the Transportation Bureau can permit us to conduct small-scale tests on certain sections of the city, this is basically enough. Muniu has nothing to do now, and it is still long, so I think it is enough to get things done."
After hearing this, Lu Zhou nodded. Lu Ming said so, so he didn't think too much about it. Although he remembered that this matter would be quite troublesome in the future.
Half an hour later, Lu Zhou and Lu Ming left Mu Niu's office.
Things seem to be full of clues. At least the building block cars are so clever and concise. No matter how hard they buy a real car for them.
Lu Zhou said to Lu Ming, "I remember that the laboratory had always had an informal project before. What was going on?"
After hearing this, Lu Ming smiled, "Are you talking about the 'urban brain'? That's the result of everyone's brainstorming. The things discussed have always been summarized and sorted out, but it is not easy to get into many things, and there are not so many people working on them for a while."
Luzhou Road, "In this way, this part of the transportation can be properly arranged. If not, new personnel can be recruited to form a team. This should be a specialist in transportation engineering."
After hearing this, Lu Ming was puzzled, "Oh? You need to be so concerned? I don't remember which project needs this thing."
Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Then you don't have a good memory. Mango Taxi. They are currently working on some modules for route optimization and order distribution. Only these two involve optimization and optimal resolution."
After hearing this, Lu Ming understood, "Okay. I'll arrange it. Go back and let someone come to Mango, so that we can start quickly."
Lu Zhou nodded, "Okay."
Chapter completed!