Internet 2010

After the festival, under the instruction of Lu Zhou, Seven Star Laboratory and two chip companies in the Dream Valley system, Zhennan Xindong and Lizhi Technology, reached a consensus on establishing a cooperative laboratory with Beijing Post and Telecommunications. In the following years, the investment in the whole project was mainly led by Qixing, and the whole investment was about 30 million RMB.

As for money, Seven Star Labs will only spend money, not make money. In the end, it is still WeChat’s money to inject into Seven Stars.

However, it is related to the development of artificial intelligence in Menggu, and it is still a key chip field, and the 30 million yuan cannot be saved. If possible, Lu Zhou would be more willing to invest more. However, WeChat does not have so much financial support.

As for Zhennan Xindong and Lizhi Technology, although they don’t have much money, they all take Menggu’s money, but they were still chip companies in the past, and they still have a foundation. To establish a research laboratory related to chips, it is somewhat useful to call these two companies. At least contribute some industry experience.

At this time, Lu Zhou and Lu Ming came to the location of the Mu Niu project in the laboratory.

When Seven Stars was first established, only the part related to artificial intelligence and algorithms was presided over by Lu Ming, but later, the related research fields have also been continuously expanded.

The part that Lu Ming presided over was later an independent project called Wolong. And now, the achievements of Wolong have been put before the eyes of the world, that is, the blockbuster "Dragon Eye" in Brother Gu's challenge a while ago. You know, what was running at that time was only a part of the longan.

The wooden cow project is more related to mechanical hardware.

For example, what Lu Ming wants to show Luzhou today is an "unmanned vehicle" project!

The two walked into the office of the Wooden Niu Project. At this time, several people were conducting various experiments.

Lu Zhou looked at the "Whirlwind Charge" in the hands of several people, "Is this the car you got?"

Naturally, this unmanned vehicle is not that unmanned vehicle.

The leader was an older male researcher with a stubby beard and 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 and is equipped with cameras and various sensors. These data will be sent back in real time. After the data is sent back, it will be processed on the hardware here."

As he spoke, he pointed to several workstations beside him.

When Lu Zhou took a look, he directly recognized these computers. This is the equipment that Wolong uses to train AI every day.

The other party went on to say, "We built a training system with the Longan framework, and after the data on the car is obtained and transmitted, it can be used as a data set for the system after certain processing. Finally, the entire model is used for the vehicle. next steps to make decisions.”

Lu Zhou, "Can it be understood that the camera recognizes the roadblock you set up, and the system confirms that it is a roadblock, and then gives the car an instruction to turn?"

The researcher said, "This is roughly the process. We have also considered using a laser, which may make the entire identification more accurate. There is no problem with the building block car, but if the physical car is used in the future, the cost will be a bit too much. "

As soon as Lu Zhou heard it, he remembered what Brother Gu's unmanned car seemed to be using.

Lu Zhou rubbed his chin and said after thinking about it, "I think the camera is cheap, but it is only suitable for use as an auxiliary tool."

After hearing this, Lu Ming was also curious, "Oh? Actually, I think Mu Niu has done a good job. Although the AI's capabilities are still limited, I think as long as the training can reach a certain level, it must be able to meet the requirements. ."

Lu Zhou shook his head and said, "It may be difficult."

Lu Ming, "Huh? How?"

Lu Zhoudao, "Look, in the whole process, the image processing of the camera occupies a very large part of the time. If we place the processing in the cloud, this may need to consider the delay problem. If not, then we need to Consider a car, but in the case of a car, there is an upper limit to the energy that can be carried, so the computing power naturally has an upper limit.”

Just after he finished speaking, Lu Zhou thought for a while and said, "But this is a small problem. After all, I am concerned about when I can start researching from building block cars to cars."

The researcher smiled and said, "Actually, you can start at any time, but you don't have much experience at the beginning, so this method is used to reduce costs. However, if the wooden cows are to be mounted and tried on real vehicles, there are a few question."

Lu Zhou said, "Speak. If you can solve it, solve it."

The other party said, "One is personnel, and researchers in automotive engineering must be indispensable; the other is the need to purchase various hardware equipment on a large scale, and we will make a list of this; finally, it is the site issue."

Lu Zhou's forehead wrinkled after hearing this. The first two items are simple, but the last item alone, he is not quite sure how to fix it.

He said, "Do you have any plans for this venue?"

Lu Ming said, "Actually, the traffic flow in the university city is very small. As long as the traffic bureau allows us to conduct small-scale tests in certain sections of the city, this is basically enough. Mu Niu has nothing yet, and the time is still long. I think it's enough to get things done."

Lu Zhou nodded after hearing this. Lu Ming said so, so he didn't think about it too much. Although he remembered that it 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 very clear, at least the building block cars are well-rounded, and they will buy a real car for them anyway.

Lu Zhou said to Lu Ming, "I remember, the laboratory has always had an informal project before~www.readwn.com~ What happened?"

After hearing this, Lu Ming smiled, "Did you say 'city brain'? That is the result of everyone's brainstorming. The things discussed have always been sorted out, but many of them are not easy to cut into, and there are not so many meetings for a while. Do it by hand."

Lu Zhoudao, "In this way, this part of the traffic can be properly arranged for manpower. If not, new personnel can be recruited to form a team. This should be a special traffic engineering major."

Lu Ming was puzzled for a while after hearing this, "Oh? Need to be so careful? I don't remember which project needs this thing."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Then you don't have a good memory. Mango taxis. At present, they are already working on some modules for route optimization and order distribution. Only these two involve optimization and reconciliation."

After hearing it, Lu Ming also understood, "Okay. I'll arrange it. You can ask someone to come over from Mango, so that we can start quickly."

Lu Zhou nodded, "ok."

After all, the two said goodbye and went back separately.