Chapter 107 Mining Cluster Unit
Chapter 107 Mining Cluster Unit
These copycat vehicles are used if they are used alone to carry out missions.
You may break down before you get very far, or even if you reach your destination, your movements will be so clumsy that your work efficiency will be seriously hampered.
But if a Type 1 ore transport vehicle that has been reinforced by a survival point takes the central command, there will be a special electric transport vehicle responsible for replenishing electricity for them nearby.
Then these shortcomings will be compensated.
All copycat vehicles will be able to achieve construction efficiency close to the original ones.
"Actually, a vehicle that has been enhanced through a survival point."
"The core intelligent chip has always been in a state of excess performance. It can completely control its own actions while commanding other vehicles to act together."
"And if the other vehicles are of the same model and need to face the same type of work."
"Then the computing power that the smart chip needs to invest in command will be further reduced."
“These two factors add up.”
"This forms the basis for one vehicle to command more vehicles and form a cluster unit."
In the tactical mode of the operation interface.
Su Wu could see it clearly.
The Type 15 ore transport vehicle, which serves as the command center, uses about 10% of the computing power of its smart chip to coordinate the entire cluster operation, 1% of the computing power to control itself, and each of the remaining vehicles is individually allocated between 2% and % of the computing power.
Although it doesn't seem to consume much for the time being, this is also related to the current situation.
The Type 1 Ore Transporter was controlling the entire cluster, driving along the road towards the Lime Shelter.
There are no overly complicated calculations in the whole process.
If the project of actual mining is subsequently put into practice, the computing power consumption will skyrocket according to the current proportion.
Even in some extreme cases.
It may also be necessary for the shelter's artificial intelligence to provide temporary computing power support remotely in order to successfully carry out the mission.
Of course, extreme cases are rare after all.
Generally speaking, a Type 1 ore transport vehicle that has been reinforced by a survival point is sufficient to deal with most situations.
And the details don’t stop there.
Want to run a cluster unit normally.
Just having computing power, or command ability, is not enough.
It also needs to have a stable command network that can pass instructions to each subordinate unit.
In practice, it is concentrated on the Type 1 ore transport vehicle and its communication device which has a strong anti-interference ability.
This communication device.
Perhaps there is no large truck, but the long-distance communication device specially strengthened at the survival point is powerful enough to directly contact the shelter across a distance of 25 kilometers without the assistance of other equipment.
It can be done at close distances, such as 1 kilometer, which is equivalent to face-to-face range.
Then there is almost nothing that can prevent it from sending the signal.
For example, at least the radiation intensity on the ground today is not enough to hinder it.
Other than that.
Energy is also an important factor affecting the birth of clusters.
The highest quality first-generation solid-state battery that Su Wu could produce was simply not enough to keep a car running for too long.
And this time.
An electric transport vehicle specifically used to replenish electricity has its own reason for existence.
Its addition will enable cluster units to have the ability to travel truly long distances and perform work tasks.
Perhaps the only flaw.
It is quite expensive to manufacture such an electric transport vehicle.
A total of 54 cubic meters of batteries, even if they are old first-generation batteries.
The cost of this would have been a huge fortune before the end of the world. However, it was because it did not require the consumption of survival points.
Su Wu would not take this cost too seriously.
If you run out of resources, you can trade with other shelters, or go to the ruins of Jianghe City to scavenge for garbage.
It will never be harder than gaining survival points.
After a 7.5-kilometer journey, the stability and reliability of the command ability were verified.
The mining cluster, commanded by the Type 1 Ore Transport Vehicle, began to replenish supplies with the assistance of the survivors of the Lime Shelter after arriving at the destination.
The so-called supplement.
In fact, it is just adding some finished steel plates, ropes for fixing, steel bars and other things.
These materials will be placed in the open cargo box of the Type I ore transport vehicle.
Then use it for the next task.
The process of replenishing supplies is relatively long.
Not a robot after all.
Even though tools were used in many places, it still took the survivors nearly an hour.
Only then were all the supplies that needed to be replenished loaded into the transport vehicle.
Take advantage of this time.
The electric transport vehicle went to recharge a little more, bringing the accumulated power to more than 3000 degrees.
Subsequently.
The entire mining cluster includes a Type 1 ore transport vehicle, an electric transport vehicle, and eight engineering vehicles including six small excavators.
We began to turn around and headed towards the mountains in the distance.
Their mission, or the original purpose of the creation of this mining cluster.
It is to dig a passage through the mountains to reach a small limestone mine.
Compared to before the earthquake.
This task after the earthquake became much simpler.
The strong earthquake destroyed most of the towering cliffs, and the daunting narrow rift valley was almost filled with fallen rocks.
Although this will require a lot more earth and rock to be excavated in the process of opening the road.
The route is bound to be a bit tortuous.
But at least, there is no need to cut rocks and lay plank roads in the air on the cliffs as originally planned, which would consume an astonishing amount of steel.
The cost was reduced to a level that even surprised Su Wu.
In a way, this may be a gift brought by the earthquake.
The journey was peaceful and calm.
The mining cluster successfully drove into the mountains.
And after they continued to go deeper, they left the 15-kilometer radius of the communication signal tower of the shelter.
After the earthquake, more than half of the monitoring network that was originally laid in the mountainous area was still preserved. It began to take over the communication between the mining cluster and the shelter.
[The mining cluster has arrived at its destination.]
[Start construction mode.]
[Exploration drone takes off.]
[Begin planning the construction route.]
[The first phase of construction route has been determined.]
[The hardness of the rock at the scene was detected to be high.]
[Some small excavator units have started to replace their drill bits.]
After arriving at the work site.
Except for the initial exploration of the route, the shelter's artificial intelligence needs to intervene.
The remaining tasks.
All are judged and handled by the mining cluster itself.
The Type 1 ore transport vehicle has proven through actual actions that it can indeed serve as the command center of a cluster.
No need to worry too much about the shelter.
(End of this chapter)