Liu Peichao: Ten years of "grind" a arm

In September 2012, Liu Peichao was promoted to the Graduate School of Shandong University and continued to study mechanical engineering. This Rizhao boy who likes to make a small invention has participated in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition many times during the undergraduate period.

Become a graduate student, Liu Peichao has more opportunities to enter the laboratory. He found that everyone spent a lot of time on some repetitive actions such as shaking bottle every day, so they suddenly wondered, "Can you create a smart robotic arm and be an assistant to be a person?"

When graduating from a master's degree, Liu Peichao, who had been pondering the smart robotic arm, resolutely decided to go south to start a business.

In October 2014, Liu Peichao said that two classmates came to Shenzhen together and rented a set of apartments less than 40 square meters. The living room was their work room.

"At that time, when the robotic arm was said, the bulky big guys in the factory came into mind. But what Peico had to do is to put on the table to help people work. At that time, no one in the world did this to do this. Planting products. "Li Yibin, a professor at the School of Control Science and Engineering of Shandong University, appreciates the creativity of his students.

The first sample machine was made, and Liu Peichao was excited. But seeing this robotic arm clumsy, the circle was crooked, and the smile on his face froze.

In pain, Liu Peichao and the team made every effort to improve: First, design parts by themselves, and treat each key parts as carefully as making crafts. The second is to change algorithm control, turn complex computing formulas into simple computing formula plus databases, improve computing performance and reduce the cost of controller.

In July 2015, Liu Peichao and the team successfully developed the first desktop intelligent robotic arm. With the new creativity of lightweight intelligent robotic arm, this product is very popular in crowdfunding abroad, receiving more than 1,000 orders.

The success of the first product gave Liu Peichao self -confidence. He decided to give up the workshop -style work method, set up his own company "Yuejiang", bigger career, and work hard in the direction of "establishing a national industry brand with technology".

As soon as Yuejiang was established, he stood at the crossroads. One way, like most entrepreneurial teams, do smart hardware and make fast money. On the basis of existing products, it further improves accuracy and develops industrial -grade robotic arm. Most investors and partners want to go ahead, but Liu Peichao decides to go, because industrial robotic arm is the key to the upgrading of the manufacturing industry. Essence

Lang Lang, who has been in the industrial robot industry for many years, needs the difficulty of technology and the risk of investment, so he has the greatest opposition. "What are we going to start a business in Shenzhen at first? Isn't it just to create a domestic robotic arm that can replace imports? Now we have taken the first step. If you do n’t persist, you will regret it in the future." Unusually serious.

During that time, he ran around and lobbying his outstanding talents came to join. The phone called and his tongue was exhausted. What is even more difficult to say is investors. Faced with various doubts, Liu Peichao did not shake.

The long research and development process is like the marathon that Liu Peichao loves to run, which specializes in endurance. After successfully applied the dynamic algorithm on the industrial robotic arm, he began to ponder again: there are six axes on the robotic arm, each shaft has a motor, each motor needs a servo driver, plus the controller, the whole, the whole The chassis is as large as the refrigerator. Can you drag six motors with a servo driver, and then integrate it high with the controller?

Knowing that some Chinese companies are developing such lightweight industrial robotic arms, the price of the same robotic arm in the Chinese market has rapidly dropped from more than 200,000 yuan to 120,000 yuan.

Foreigners are really "thieves"! The purpose is to defeat the enthusiasm of Chinese peers and occupy the Chinese market for a long time. "The way you choose, you have to finish kneeling!" Liu Peichao secretly fierce, and he focused on technical research day after day. The drawings drawn by the team are more than 1 meter high; the code written by the team has millions of lines. Three years of retreat, no smell outside the window. In March 2018, the industrial robotic arm developed by Yuejiang was finally quantified. The case was only as large as the computer host, and the price was only half of similar foreign products. In recent years, Liu Peichao has been immersed in the world of robotic arm, leading the team to apply for a total of 1,140 related intellectual property rights in the field of robotics, of which 35 international patents and 817 Chinese patents have filled the desktop -level robotic arm industry Essence He himself has been awarded the titles of Shenzhen's top ten entrepreneurial talents, nationwide to good young people, and Shenzhen's outstanding Communist Party members.

No matter how much the business is made and how much honor is the individual, Liu Peichao, who always wears black T -shirts and love bubble test rooms, smiled indifferently: "I want domestic robotic arm to be smarter, so as to be perceived, thinking, and decision -making ","

(Reporter Yan Shenghe Dangwang Ting)

Source: "Guangming Daily" (01, July 13, 2022)

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General planning: Wang Huimin

Director: Zhao Jianguo

Coordinating: Bi Yucai Yang Gu's Hu Qifeng

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