Like a large mouse robot, it is helping to do "terribly" dirty work!

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Introduction: You may not know that the granary used to store grains has caused many people to hurt or even die!

People often store food in farm granary, and grain storage is an important part of agricultural production. However, during the storage process, we lost up to 30%of grain value due to poor management and unfavorable conditions. What's even more distressing is that the risk of granary also includes a caly -grain incident and long -term lung damage caused by the granary environment to agricultural workers.

my country's modern granary granary

How dangerous to work in the granary? If a person accidentally falls into the granary, the grain can be buried in just a few seconds. In 2015, a flour factory in Si County, Anhui County had a calywood trap. Six raw materials cleaned up operators were trapped in the granaries. Firefighters spent 10 hours for rescue. As a result, two people were unfortunately killed. Traditional granary operations rely on manpower. It is very dangerous to fall into the granary. It is not only difficult to carry out safety hazards, but it is also difficult to carry out work.

Is there a way to reduce the risks of all this and improve work efficiency? Technology gave us the answer.

1. Little body bears "terrible" dirty work

This thing like a big mouse is our protagonist today. The creator is called "grain elephant nose", and the name comes from a small insect that is often raised in the grains -but now, it is not only a raging person, but also turns into a good helper of human beings.

"Grain looks like nose" work photos

The main function of "grain elephant nose" is to ensure the safety and normal management of the barn, including flat grains, checking the damage to the grain, and even bringing out the grain. It uses the spiral drill at the bottom to advance, which can quickly shuttle on the top of the barn, and to flatten the grain through gravity, so that we can manipulate the shape of the valley pile. As a result, we can handle a bunch of grains flat and tidy, and when needed, it can send the grain into the extract of the spiral drill and remove the food from the barn. In addition, if it is buried by the grain, it can also dig out a grain of up to 1.524 meters by itself. Finally, check the damage to the grain: It can also excavate in the grain and find the place where pests or molds invade in advance, which liberated farmers who have long worked in the granary for a long time and prevent the occurrence of lung disease. It is configured with the heat dissipation device, and it will not spontaneously ignite and irreversible accidents at work.

The granary robot that was buried and broke out of the "Valley"

Compared to other large and bulky, difficult and difficult robots, the "grain elephant nose" that appeared this time is small, only about 40*50 cm, and it can move freely in the barn. Therefore, this barn robot can also complete more fine operations, such as flattening the specific range of the barn.

Second, excellence, refinement and leaping technical difficulty

So where is the technical difficulty of "Grain Elephant Nose"?

When it moves on the grain, the "sediment gravity flow" like grains will cause obstacles to it, which requires clever structural design and a set of powerful sensors and code to maintain the robot execution task.

What is the so -called "sedimentary gravity flow"? You can understand the feeling when walking in a desert or swamp -this is why the "buried" incident occurred in the granary. The small and huge number of particles gather together, forming a terrible fluid. Friends who know off -road vehicles know that there are many special tires on off -road vehicles, which can be used to apply the right medicine according to different surfaces. It has a good effect on the surface of quicksand. However, for robots working in the granary, only the rough surface of the wheels can only meet the needs of walking on the grain. For paving the work of grain, the efficiency is still very low. Therefore, the creative team uses 4 spiral diamonds as its wheels, so that the robot can walk through the grain at high speed, and can quickly and timely "drill" themselves from the valley pile when it is buried. In addition to structural design, the robot is also installed with a sensor that can monitor the real -time state to further ensure that it can drive smoothly in the valley pile. This machine looks simple, but the challenge to create a mobile robot that can drive on the surface of the valley logistics body is really difficult.

Disassembly of "Grain Elephant Nose" parts

In fact, the team's initial test version of the robot has already shown good performance, and can implement some basic granary cleanup work normally. After that, they started to enrich the functions of the robot and make the work of the robot more intelligent. To this end, the creative team built a granary robot exclusive software for about one year. After hundreds of hours of testing, the granary robot was finally upgraded into a smart granary picker.

The improvement of software's performance on robotics is mainly reflected in two aspects: First, with the newly installed sensor, the robot has learned the temperature and humidity of the granary environment in real time, so that farmers can intuitively see the situation in the granary; second, the software allows to let the software allow The robot can more effectively find the structure that needs to be flattened in the grain pile, and through the distribution of inductive stress, it further ensures that it can come up in a valley pile like a swamp. The creative team of the robot also said that they will continue to focus on improving the robot's hardware structure and control software so that it can achieve more complicated barn management tasks. Now, "Grain Elephant Nose" requires remote control to ensure work. In the future, this robot will be fully automatic: the farmer only needs to throw the robot into the barn, and then it will work according to the set program. In addition, in the future, robots may also have more data collection functions, which can monitor the status of the barn in real time through remote cameras. "Grain Elephant Nose" may not only improve the sustainability of our grain supply, but also save money and life. We also look forward to the team can create a more complete barn robot, so that all farmers can bid farewell to the risks of the granary, and the intelligent dividend can be enjoyed by everyone.

Third, do not forget the original intention to benefit the basic industry

The barn robot that is being tested

"Actually, doing this robot most makes ourselves a sense of accomplishment is that we can help the local farmers in this way! We were born in the era of science and technology, using technology to make human life more convenient and better, and use the robot to a high degree . It feels great to serve farmers' friends like this, and I can get innovation when I see agriculture. We have a 13 -year -old child who is learning to control the granary robot. My goal is to let him no longer need to pick up the shovel (manual artificially (manual manual artificial Granary work). "The creative team said.

As the top three grain export countries, China attaches great importance to grain safety. Food is like water and air. In order to protect our "food fields", my country has proposed the most stringent cultivated land protection system, and it has also implemented the strategy of "hiding grain in land, hiding grain in technology". This requires the use of modern agricultural technology and material equipment to strengthen the support of food safety. There are not a few types of granary robots in our country, such as the intelligent robot of automatic cruise duty in Zibo, Shandong, the turning machine invented by the Northeast guy, and the grain temperature 3D model.

Corn Grain in Heilongjiang, China

Conclusion:

With the development of science and technology, perhaps in the near future, all farms can have such barn management tools, which will change the security and efficiency of barn management.

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