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Chapter 52 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarm Systems

Because multi-rotor drones use motors as their power source, the fuselage must be as lightweight as possible due to limitations in motor power and battery life.

The previous Hot Hot drone could also use aluminum alloy or titanium alloy.

However, when it comes to multi-rotor drones, aluminum alloys are too heavy, so engineering plastics can be used instead.

Even later disposable bomb drones, in order to achieve the ultimate cost-effectiveness and lightweight requirements, still use foam plastics.

However, Lin Dong had no need to make bomb drones, and since he had plenty of money, he went straight for the top-grade special engineering plastics.

"PEEK (polyetheretherketone), one of the engineering plastics with the best strength and weather resistance, costs 580 yuan per kilogram. This stuff is really expensive..."

Lin Dong fixed a piece of PEEK plastic onto the clamp, put on an NB95 mask, turned on the cutting machine with cooling spray, activated his Soul Vision, and cut without saying a word.

Nourishes—

A piercing sound rang out.

Soon, a piece of plastic was cut off, followed by a second cut, and then a third cut.

In less than two minutes, what was originally a square piece of engineering plastic was transformed into a 26-centimeter-long, angular drone arm.

Turn off the power to the cutting machine and switch to the grinder to continue grinding.

Within five minutes, a support arm that perfectly matched the blueprint parameters, with a streamlined appearance and a hollowed-out section in the middle, appeared in front of Lin Dong.

"The speed of this plastic hand-rolling is alright, it's just a bit troublesome." Lin Dong picked up the support arm to check it over, and then began to process the second support arm.

Normally, plastic is processed into parts through injection molding.

However, injection molding requires molds and professional injection molding machines. After weighing the pros and cons of small-batch production, Lin Dong decided that hand-molding was more convenient and faster.

As Lin Dong's cutting and polishing skills became more and more proficient, his speed also increased.

In less than an hour and a half, the twelve drone arms were completely hand-made.

Then, the four support arms are grouped together and connected in the middle to fix the main body box.

Then install the motor, soft blades, shielded wires, blade retraction springs, outrigger retraction springs, control mainboard, high-capacity battery, infrared sensor, communication module, camera module, and high-power adjustable laser radar.

soon.

三架展开尺寸714mm×601mm×360mm，最大续航68分钟，重量3.8千克的四轴无人机就出现在林东的面前。

"Start flashing the firmware."

Lin Dong pulled three serial charging cables to connect to the motherboard, physically unplugged the power supply to the laser radar, and then opened the control program that had been ported from Hot002 and modified to be compatible with multi-rotor drones and began writing it.

[Beep—Writing at 8%...26%...48%...]

[Beep—System write complete, Swarm System at your service!]

hum!

The sound of motors running filled the air as three drones started up and took flight, hovering steadily in the air above the laboratory, each trailing a serial charging cable.

Lin Dong glanced at the started drone, checked the background data, focusing on the laser's data to confirm there were no hidden dangers or problems, opened the simulation system, and his hands flew across the keyboard, quickly typing in lines of code before pressing the Enter key.

[Beep—Swarm attack mode unlocked! The swarm is launching an attack!]

boom--

The laboratory's supercomputer roared to life, its performance utilization instantly reaching 100%, and countless data points began to be updated.

The propellers of the three drones were also spinning to their maximum speed, stirring up the air at a speed of tens of thousands of revolutions per minute and emitting a high-frequency, ear-piercing whistling sound.

However, due to the four-axis design, the torques of the motors cancel each other out.

Even with the rotation speed at its highest, the entire drone remained steadily hovering inside the laboratory.

"Yes, multi-rotor drones are relatively slow and do not require extreme predictive analysis. The main issue is the identification of various objects in low-altitude environments."

"But we already had enough data on this issue from the previous laser mosquito-killing exercise, so it didn't slow down the system's learning progress..."

Lin Dong carefully examined the simulation learning data of the bee colony system, a hint of satisfaction appearing in his eyes.

AI intelligence and large-scale model learning are technologies that have become widespread and familiar more than a decade later.

Although Lin Dong did not understand the specific code.

But I still know some of the general principles and model framework after watching a lot of popular science videos.

Once you understand the principles and framework, with the support of your inner vision, writing the code becomes much easier.

of course.

It was still 2012. Nvidia was just a roadside company, and its chips lacked sufficient computing power. In addition, the code for the complete large model was in the tens of millions, which was not something that could be completed by one person.

Lin Dong didn't create those general-purpose large models; instead, he spent two years creating a specialized model related to drone air combat.

"The data is very stable, and the learning progress is fast."

"Although this Dawning 5000A supercomputer only has 230 TFLOPS of computing power, the code written with the aid of Soul Vision is extremely efficient. In addition, the dedicated model code is more concise, and its learning performance is even stronger than that of later AI large models..."

"At this learning pace, the bee colony system can evolve into bee colony 1.0 in as little as two days and as long as three days, just in time for the picnic..."

Lin Dong observed for half an hour, and after confirming that there were no problems, he left it to run automatically, picked up his schoolbag, and went home for dinner.

Over the next few days, Lin Dong went to the lab every noon and after school to optimize the learning data of the swarm drones.

When he has free time, he takes out the materials science books sent by Wang Xingguo to expand his learning, or looks at the data from the Hot No. 2 and the J-10/J-20 combat exercises, and thinks about the next improvement design ideas for unmanned combat aircraft.

Soon, it was Saturday.

Lin Dong once again enjoyed his holiday, and this day was also the agreed-upon time for an outing.

Zhang Xiali got up early and made a plate of wontons in chili oil and boiled eggs. After Lin Dong finished breakfast, she packed his clothes for his picnic and outing, along with various snacks, cured meats, sausages, and braised dishes. Finally, she didn't forget to stuff 600 yuan in cash into Lin Dong's pocket.

"When you go out, stay close to the adults and listen to your Uncle Xu's arrangements. If everyone wants to buy any drinks or other things, pay for them if you think you can. Don't be stingy with these small amounts of money, but don't always pay for everything yourself."

"Also, it's been warmer these past few days since the beginning of spring, so ticks might come out. When you're in the mountains, make sure to tuck your sleeves and trouser legs in tightly. If you get bitten by a tick, remember to go to the hospital and don't try to remove it yourself."

"Okay, Mom."

Lin Dong nodded obediently: "Stay close to the adults, don't be stingy or a pushover, stay safe, and watch out for ticks."

"Alright, let's go. Your Uncle Xu and Qingling are already waiting for you downstairs."

Zhang Xiali smiled and said, "Call home if anything happens."

Goodbye, Mom.

Lin Dong hugged Zhang Xiali, picked up his backpack filled with maternal love, and pulled a suitcase from the doorway downstairs.