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Ningbo Dr. team implants "human-like intelligence" into industrial production lines
AI workers are also "rolling" up
A few days ago, in the new workshop of more than 6,000 square meters of Jiangsu Xingda Steel Cord Co., Ltd., 12 wire drawing robots "hissed" and "spit" out 0The steel wire with a diameter of 2 mm is finally made into steel cord for automobile tires after a series of complex processes. At first glance, it is not much different from other unmanned workshops and 5G factories. But in a world you can't "hear", this group of AI workers is "discussing" technology in full swing!
In the Xingda factory, AI workers are loading and unloading, knotting, palletizing, handling, and automatically inspecting the quality at the same time. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
Dr. Gan Zhongzhong, Dean of the Institute of Intelligent Robotics of Fudan University and Chairman of Ningbo Zhichang Group, led the team to point to a long list of ** and data in the background, and carefully "translated".
According to the operating parameters shared by the No. 5 AI worker, in the case of a constant tension of 3 kg, the length error is 8 meters more than that of the No. 5 machine, which is urgent! ”
What to do? Learn advanced! ”
Worker No. 1 is optimizing and adjusting the control parameters of No. 5 AI worker, and after several rounds of self-debugging, the error value of No. 1 has become significantly smaller by ......”
As soon as Gan Middle School talked about robots, he habitually asked and answered himself. As a breakthrough cutting-edge technology, implanting "human-like intelligence" into industrial production lines is still difficult for many people to understand.
To put it simply, it is to give the factory production line a brain, and without human intervention, it can think independently, learn independently, and optimize independently. In the workshop of Xingda Company in front of me, there are rows of blue floor-to-ceiling cabinets lying black boxes, more than ten centimeters long and seven or eight centimeters wide, which is the brain of Gan Middle School that urges the machine of the production line to think.
A box is equivalent to a simplified version of the human brain. Gan Middle School explained that the human brain is divided into crawling brain, lactation brain, and human brain from the inside out, called the "ternary brain", each part corresponds to different functions, and is applied to the robot, the first element brain can be responsible for controlling the robot movement, the second element brain is responsible for scheduling, perception, and the third element brain is responsible for thinking and planning, and coordinates with each other. If many AI worker robots with "ternary brains" are put together to work together, interact with each other in real time, and catch up with each other like humans, intelligence will emerge.
Judging from the data of Xingda company, the residual torsion force in the production process of the product was originally high and low, affecting the product quality, and the pass rate was only 80%, and after installing the "ternary brain", the pass rate not only reached 100%, but also the fluctuation ratio of the parameters was only one-third of the original.
It sounds simple to have a brain on the production line, but to achieve it, it requires a very complex, very sophisticated, and very ingenious algorithm construction. Gan Middle School used 3 "very" in one go.
Gan Middle School is the world's top expert in the field of robotics, and in 2016, he led his team to Yuyao to establish "Zhichang", aiming to develop a production line of "human-like intelligence" for China.
Eight years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the Gan Middle School team is racing against time all the time. Gan Middle School's "home" in Yuyao is located at the foot of Longquan Mountain, and he is used to getting up at 3:30 in the morning to engage in research and development, and he works 36 hours a day. He is over seventy years old, and he works harder than young people!
Perhaps it is because of the scientist's natural sense of mission that Gan Middle School always has a kind of hard work and tenacity that cannot wait. "99 in the world38%, China 997% of the work is still done manually, and China is currently experiencing a wave of 'machine substitution', but most of the robots are still automated robots, which do not yet have a growth mechanism similar to that of living organisms, and urgently need to find a breakthrough. At this, his speed of speech unconsciously quickened again.
In particular, Zhejiang's high-end advantageous industrial clusters have a thick foundation, and these block economies themselves are chains of mutual need, in fact, it is most suitable to use artificial intelligence to solve the problem of high-quality development. "Zhejiang" has also become the best testing ground for the Gan Middle School team, and it has gone to the whole country step by step.
In the past two days, the team of Gan Middle School has been busy preparing an "unmanned factory" of solid wood furniture. A piece of wood should be cut into strips twenty or thirty centimeters long, polished, and then put together into boards more than two meters long. In the middle, each piece of wood pattern, color, wormhole, mildew and so on are different, in the past, manual screening one by one, time-consuming, labor-intensive, the cost of material preparation accounted for almost 49% of the cost.
In the future, with the blessing of the "ternary brain" of the Gan Middle School team, it is only necessary to throw an order and "tell" the AI workers that they need 10 colors and 1,000 chairs tomorrow, and this production line can be produced automatically without manual labor. Current test data shows a 70% reduction in average lead time. This brings far more than just a reduction in labor costs, but also a reconstruction and upgrading of the intelligent manufacturing system.
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Grab the "bull's nose" of artificial intelligence
**The general secretary has made important statements on the importance and development prospects of artificial intelligence many times. He pointed out that "artificial intelligence is a strategic technology leading this round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, with a strong spillover driving 'head goose' effect", "accelerating the development of a new generation of artificial intelligence is an important strategic grasp for us to win the initiative in global scientific and technological competition".
As an important driving force for a new round of industrial transformation, artificial intelligence has emerged in the fields of R&D, design, production and manufacturing. According to some people, by 2030, the scale of China's artificial intelligence core industry may exceed 1 trillion yuan, driving the scale of related industries to exceed 10 trillion yuan. Therefore, promoting artificial intelligence to empower all walks of life to form new quality productivity is the current "bull's nose" project.
In recent years, all parts of Zhejiang have proposed to build high-end advantageous industrial clusters and strive to build new advantages for high-quality development. This gives AI companies the best "testing ground" and a vast market. We look forward to more Gan Middle School teams coming up.
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