Du Qiu liked to study various machinery since he was a child, and later developed electrical appliances. He also became obsessed with computer-controlled intelligent machines.
When I was in my junior year, I had an argument with a senior about the gap between domestically produced and imported CNC machine tools, and I came up with the idea of independently developing a top-notch CNC machining center.
When he was studying for his master's degree, Du Qiu was not afraid of tigers, so he started developing software. After all, the cost was very low.
Unfortunately, this kind of software is different from general computer application software. It is inseparable from the hardware.
In China, there are actually two companies, Central Data and Southern Data, that are conducting intensive research in this area, and they have the support of the state.
Just when Du Qiu's progress was slow, Central Data launched a high-end CNC software system and began to apply it in military industry enterprises.
This also set off a brain-changing movement, in which some military industrial companies replaced the imported control software systems used in high-end CNC machine tools with domestic ones.
Because control software is called the brain of CNC machine tools, changing the control system software is called brain replacement.
After Du Qiu learned about this, he was not discouraged. After understanding the system performance of Central Data, he still spent time to continue research.
Even when he was in love with Zhang Mingliu, he often ignored her, which caused a lot of conflicts between the two and laid the hidden danger of their eventual breakup.
After writing it intermittently for more than four years, the software finally took shape. It was only when he and his mentor were working on a tool magazine project for Huading Group that they made significant progress.
Huading Group occupies a considerable market share of CNC machine tools in the north. It produces many models of CNC machine tools every year and integrates various CNC systems at home and abroad.
This gave Du Qiu the opportunity to understand the characteristics and uses of various machine tools, and also came into contact with the domestic or imported systems used in these machine tools.
After understanding the hardware characteristics of these machine tools and comparing the advantages and disadvantages of domestically produced and imported similar software, Du Qiu finally completed the prototype of his own software system.
Although the system was very innovative, Du Qiu was always dissatisfied. Therefore, he did not use it to start a business when he graduated with his PhD. Instead, he transferred to an autonomous driving company to continue researching perception systems.
The main problem with the software at that time was that the software could not achieve fine control of the machine tool. In addition to hardware problems, the main problems were software control algorithm problems and machine tool perception accuracy problems.
But now that Du Qiu has studied the program of the super machine acquisition module in his dream, he has made great progress in this regard.
He felt that if he reconstructed his own software system and coupled it with corresponding bus interfaces and corresponding sensing components, the entire control system would definitely surpass Central CNC.
No, it should be able to surpass all CNC systems on the market!
After Du Qiu finished learning the control program, he became very curious about the hardware part controlled by the acquisition module. After all, through the program, he discovered that the mining part of the super machine is simply an artifact.
Du Qiu, who had descended into the intelligent core of the super machine, easily obtained the picture of the operation of the collection module.
At the top of the 49 huge pipelines is the high-speed mining machine of the super machine. This thing is actually a composite mechanism.
The outermost layer is the high-energy laser cutting machine, followed by the high-frequency oscillator, and finally the high-speed rotating cutter head.
This composite mining mechanism first uses a high-energy laser to cut off large pieces of ore, then crushes it into small pieces with a high-frequency vibrator, and then breaks it into powder through a high-speed rotating cutter head.
These powders are sucked away by huge pipelines, transferred to subsequent washing, mineral processing and other processes, and finally go through the primary purification process until the corresponding elemental materials are obtained.
Such rough operations can be easily controlled on Blue Star, such as shearers in coal mines.
But the mining of this super machine is different. It can accurately control the laser to cut the specified parts of the ore into standard shapes and sizes.
The high-frequency oscillator also accurately processes these large pieces of standard-shaped ore into pieces of the same size.
Finally, it is ground into powder layer by layer through the rotating cutter head with precise control.
All in all, the processing method in the dream perfectly reflects precise control.
Du Qiu has mastered the software's method of handling this precise control.
Now he wants to continue to understand what new knowledge he can gain in terms of hardware, such as high-energy lasers, special high-frequency oscillators, and rotating tools.
If nothing else, just knowing how tool materials are made is a great wealth.
Du Qiu was very excited when he thought that this super machine could process thousands of various elements and materials.
If a super material can be found and developed in reality, it will not only prove the authenticity of all the scientific and technological knowledge in the dream, but also bring about a breakthrough in Blue Star technology.
Isn’t the development of human society the history of the development of applied materials?
From the Stone Age to the Bronze Age and then to the Iron Age, the most important indicator used to measure a country's industrialization was steel production.
As an engineering Ph.D. in mechatronics, I am very sensitive to materials.
After Du Qiu initially studied the hardware part of the acquisition module and found that there was no further detailed explanation, he immediately turned to the primary purification module to look for high-performance materials.
He soon discovered that the materials synthesized by the super machine were basically composed of two elements. Obviously, this machine was only a producer of basic materials.
What made him more depressed was that in the long task list, he found that the knowledge was completely insufficient.
In terms of single elements, there are at least twenty more elements on the task list that have never been discovered on the Blue Star.
This means that there are no words corresponding to these elements in Du Qiu's mother tongue, so the words displayed in front of Du Qiu's eyes should be created by dreams in an unknown way according to the rules of his mother tongue.
For example, metal elements are always placed next to the word gold. As for the word on the right next to the word gold, Du Qiu doesn't know why he uses it.
Du Qiu continued to speculate that this super machine was undoubtedly collecting resources from a certain planet. The presence of more than twenty elements in the task list indicated that these elements should exist on this planet.
Although Du Qiu was curious about what kind of planet this planet was, it could have so many more elements than Blue Star.
But he soon regained his balance, because he discovered that there were at least thirty kinds of elements that Blue Star had in the task list that did not appear here.
Sure enough, the understanding of the universe with Blue Star's technology is still too superficial, even if Blue Star's astronomical telescope seems to be able to see very far away.
But in fact, they are all a bunch of pixels, and many conclusions are derived and calculated by astronomers based on known formulas and theorems in mathematics or physics, and they are not really seen.
Scientists even speculate that the universe is more than 10 billion years old and propose the Big Bang theory.
However, these are actually frogs that have not left the wellhead. It is deduced that the sky is only as big as the wellhead.
Du Qiu did not pay attention to elements that Blue Star did not have, but looked for new materials with excellent performance among the elements that Blue Star did have.
He first screened for elements that were difficult for Blue Star to purify or for which purification costs were too high.
Secondly, there are two-component synthetic materials composed of Blue Star elements, excluding those materials that Blue Star can already produce in large quantities, and choosing those with low output but wide use.
The last step is to look for binary materials with special performance parameters.
Du Qiu searched enthusiastically. Whenever he found something that he thought was realistic and usable, he would check the purification and production process of the super machine in detail and memorize all the control program codes of the corresponding functional modules.
However, the workload was not small, so Du Qiu decided to just check 10 materials every night, and use the rest of the time to study other functions.
Just like Du Qiu is now studying the control code in the underlying shared module, he found that in the control code of the purification program, there will be production process parameters.
For example, what is the catalyst added in a certain link, what is the corresponding temperature value, and what is the pressure value.
What particularly interests him is molecular displacer, a process that uses chemical reactions to replace certain elements in materials.
Time flew by quickly. After Du Qiu mastered the production and purification process of several materials, Du Qiu suddenly wanted to see if he could adjust the production tasks of the super machine.
Because he discovered a two-component material with excellent properties that had not been produced before, he did not find any images of the relevant production process.
At this moment, the production task for this material is ranked 3021st on the list.
Du Qiu tentatively issued instructions to advance this task to run after the current task is completed.
When his instructions reached the egg-sized stars, the task list really changed immediately.
It didn't take long for Du Qiu to see the 3021st mission being carried out.
Just when Du Qiu was happy that he could control this machine, he suddenly received a message.
"Warning, a zero-level exception occurred in the program!"