S University Gymnasium.
The scene was very popular early in the morning, and many students reserved seats in advance to watch the National Search and Rescue Robot Competition. However, there were only a dozen teams participating in the competition, because the production of search and rescue robots is difficult, and the team members need to be proficient in software programming, electrical and electronics, mechanical automation and other fields. In addition, the instruments require precision, and the competition system changes every year. It is very expensive, and only universities with strong financial strength, willingness to invest, and a lot of sponsorship can afford to participate.
Although the production is difficult and it takes a lot of time to learn knowledge outside of textbooks and put it into practice, Ning Wenru chose this robot competition among many because it would be very meaningful if the search and rescue robot could be put into actual use.
Search and rescue robots can judge complex environments such as earthquakes, fires, and mining disasters, collect and analyze data, and respond to unknown emergencies. They can enter dangerous areas that people are reluctant to enter for safety reasons. However, so far, there are few search and rescue robots in actual use in the country, and the sacrifice of rescue personnel has occurred from time to time.
The search and rescue team that Ning Wenru belongs to wants to make some attempts and plans to publicly share all experimental data after the competition to provide experience for the advancement of search and rescue robots and their future mass production.
The competition started, and the atmosphere was heated. All the spectators stared at the robots, nervous, for fear that the robots of the team they supported would hit obstacles. Because according to the competition rules, if the robots hit obstacles twice, they would lose the competition!
The competition area is the size of a football field. A one-meter-tall robot needs to conduct a cross-country obstacle course timed race simulating an earthquake disaster in the football field. There are several scoring items in one competition: 1. It must be able to intelligently avoid obstacles, including falling iron blocks and stones that simulate collapse accidents, extinguish fires, avoid water, and have the basic functions of standing up after falling into a pit; 2. Detect vital signs in the competition field, draw a search and rescue map after finding them, and send it to the referee's computer; 3. Climb up the temporary hut to carry the dummy to the exit and continuously send positioning information, and the dummy representing the vital signs must not touch obstacles or get into danger during transportation.
In addition, if other innovative features are found, the judges will give additional points as appropriate.
Ning Wenru's team arrived at the competition venue early this morning and tested and debugged the robots they made. During the competition, the contestants only had two opportunities to pause the competition to repair the robots, and the search and rescue robots would act independently at other times. Therefore, if they did not need to be repaired, Ning Wenru would only have to sit outside the venue and watch quietly.
Now is the time for other teams to prepare for the competition. Ning Wenru held his chin with both hands, his mind wandering, and showed a sweet smile.
Suddenly, a blue flag was waving in front of Ning Wenru. Ning Wenru looked up and found that it was his captain.
The captain said, "Since yesterday's gathering, you have been staring blankly and grinning foolishly whenever you have free time."
A teammate also came over and said with a smile: "Yes! Xiao Ningning has been laughing like an idiot these past two days. She must be in love."
Ning Wenru touched his face, took out his phone and looked at the mirror. He stared at the mirror for a while and asked, "Are you smiling like an idiot? How do you know I have a girlfriend?"
My teammates laughed and said, "I couldn't tell yesterday when you were wearing a turtleneck shirt, but today I could tell as soon as you changed into your team uniform. Your girlfriend is super wild! Hahahaha, her neck is covered with them. Oh my god, let me count how many there are."
Then, the teammates circled around Ning Wenru and counted: "1, 2, 3... 9! Hahahaha 9! So deep and red! How strong must it be! There is no way a girl could have sneaked into the villa where we stayed last night. These are the ones left from the day before yesterday! Let me take a look under your neck, there must be more!"
Ning Wenru tightened his collar and stared at him warily, but he couldn't help but think of that night and his face began to burn.
The captain at the side sternly slapped away the hand of a teammate who was trying to open Ning Wenru's collar, and said, "Don't make trouble. Now the robot has fallen down and the track has fallen off. Be serious and watch the game carefully. You are now representing our entire school, so don't act too exaggeratedly."
"Yes!" The teammate saluted the captain, sat upright beside Ning Wenru, and stared at him with a sharp gaze. The captain took a wool scarf with a serious face and wrapped Ning Wenru's neck tightly with three layers.
Ning Wenru looked at the captain with resentment. Their uniforms were still short-sleeved! It was too strange to wear short-sleeved shirts with wool scarves. But the captain stared back at him expressionlessly, and took a scarf of the same color and put it on himself, and threw one to his teammate.
Well, everyone is wearing short sleeves and scarves, so he is not the only weird one.
So Ning Wenru pulled at the scarf that was wrapped tightly around him to allow himself to breathe more freely.
His teammate approached him and asked with a smile: "Darling, look at our scarves, do they look like couple outfits? But when did you get a girlfriend? She actually abandoned us who were obsessed with the lab together!"
Although the captain's expression was serious and calm, his ears were perked up.
Ning Wenru explained, "We just got together the night before last. I didn't mean to hide it."
The teammate asked again: "The night before last! No wonder I couldn't find you in your dormitory the night before last! It turns out that you guys went out for a laugh! Tell me, which hunk of a woman took you down? Is she from our school?"
Ning Wenru pushed away his teammates' approaching faces and said, "Focus on the game! The robot in front of us is tracked, which is different from our split-legged robot."
"I've been watching. They were fixing it a second time after it hit the wall and stopped moving. But now they've stopped and are just playing with their hair, waiting for the time. It's so boring." A teammate glanced at her and joked, "Are you still shy? If you're pretty, bring her out and show her off."
"He's very handsome, and his muscles are stronger than yours," Ning Wenru said, then stood up, leaving his teammate O with his mouth wide open in bewilderment, and said, "I'm going to go check on Team Q."
Every failure is a valuable experience. All the participants in the country have certain skills. It would be a pity if they could not complete the competition due to avoidable mistakes caused by nervousness. The captain obviously also cherished the opportunity and stood up and went over with Ning Wenru.
Ning Wenru and the captain walked over, and the members of Team Q in red uniforms were staring at their robots helplessly, dismantling and reassembling the robots' action mechanisms. But when they saw Ning Wenru and his captain, they were wary and even used their bodies to cover the disassembled robots.
Ning Wenru understood that the competition had to be kept secret, so he squatted and watched for a while, then asked, "Do you smell anything?"
No one answered him. Some people were busy checking the tracks, rollers and other moving mechanisms under the robot. They found that they could be moved manually, but the robot could not move independently. Some people were checking the program on site, trying to format the chip and re-enter the program.
Ning Wenru said again: "You really don't smell anything burning? A burning smell is likely to be a short circuit, why don't you check the circuit?"
"Yes! Thank you!" The members of Team Q suddenly understood.
"There are only four minutes left to repair the ship," the captain said, looking at the big screen: "3 minutes and 56 seconds."
The members of Team Q made a last-second struggle and hurriedly disassembled the circuit boards. However, when they saw that there were more than 20 circuit boards, they were all confused. How could they quickly find the short circuit in the complex circuit and eliminate the fault? They felt like giving up.
One of the little golden retrievers from Team Q looked at Ning Wenru pitifully, sighed, and said, "Thank you, but now that we know about the malfunction, it's too late."
Ning Wenru reminded him, "Don't worry. Besides the burning smell, what other characteristics does a short circuit have? Look at the thirteenth circuit board."
"Ahhh, it will turn black if it gets burnt! How could I have thought of that!" The little golden retriever roared, and once he found the fault, he quickly repaired it, and together with the members of Team Q, he reassembled the robot and put it on the field. Due to the tight time, there was no time for testing, and once the robot was put on the field, the members of Team Q put their palms together and prayed, hoping that the fault would be completely eliminated.
As soon as they saw the robot moving again, the members of Team Q jumped up and cheered! On the way to the simulated accident room, the robot of Team Q did not encounter any more accidents and went very smoothly. Unfortunately, the dummy fell off when it was being moved, so only two items were completed.
Even though they didn't finish everything, the members of Team Q were so happy that they all came over to shake hands with Ning Wenru. The little golden retriever even said, "Hello, senior! This is the first time for our school to participate in the competition. We really lack experience. Thank you for your guidance! Ah, you are wearing blue uniforms. You are from X University! You were the champions last year. I hope you can win again this time!"
The little golden retriever and his friends even grabbed them to ask questions, and exchanged contact information, saying that they wanted to invite them to visit Q University or something. Ning Wenru and the captain didn't exchange many pleasantries, because it would soon be their turn.
Ning Wenru's X team has already gone through many trials and the captain is a member of the last championship team, but the captain was a college student back then, and this time the captain is a graduate student. The captain has rich experience in competitions and has sufficient adaptability.
Moreover, compared with robots from other teams, X University's robots this year have great advantages and innovations!
The design concept comes from an aircraft carrier. Others only have one search and rescue robot, but their robot is a rescue team that can give birth to babies!
As soon as the robot came out, it was divided into several small teams: the sub-aircraft was used to survey the road. When the aircraft detected a fire, another sub-robot would descend from its belly to put out the fire. There was also an obstacle-clearing sub-team, which pushed all the obstacles aside to clear the way for the mother robot!
However, a major disadvantage of the mother-and-child robot competition is that the mother robot and all the child robots separated from it cannot hit the roadblocks and flying iron blocks. The competition rules are the same as those for a single robot. If they hit them twice in total, the mission will be considered a failure.
However, since Ning Wenru and his team could release the entire robot team, they had the confidence to avoid all obstacles. Multiple teams of robots worked together to successfully send the dummy back to the exit at a speed that no other team could achieve! And the completion rate was very high. Not only did they put out the fire, they also did what no other team could do - clear obstacles.
In the end, the team won the competition with great admiration. Ning Wenru and his teammates smiled happily as they received the big cheque for NT$200,000. The team leader gave a speech under the camera interview, talking about the future prospects of search and rescue robot work, the efforts of the instructor and each member, and the support of the robot parts sponsor.
Now, I don’t have to worry about research sponsorship for overseas competitions.
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After his classmates learned that Ning Wenru and his team won the championship on behalf of the school, Ning Wenru received many congratulations and blessings that day. On the night after the game, Ning Wenru and his teammates celebrated and only had time to check the chat messages. At this time, Ning Wenru had already taken a shower and checked QQ before going to bed.
Among those who sent their best wishes to Ning Wenru was Yamei, a member of the laboratory and the most beautiful girl in the school. But after congratulating Ning Wenru, Yamei cried and complained about him.
Yamei: Congratulations on winning the championship! But, you are so bad, you misled us! Crying Ning Wenru: What?
Yamei: Before going to the competition, my senior encouraged me to pursue Senior Pang, and even said that he didn’t have a girlfriend.
Ning Wenru's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that Yamei saw Pang Zaiyuan's phone and saw that his phone was full of photos of her?
Fortunately, Yamei sent two screenshots. The screenshots were from Pang Zaiyuan’s Moments the day before yesterday: [Looking for cool and romantic ways to confess, and hit the mark, if you have any, please PM me, thank you!] And yesterday he sent another message: [Seeking, what birthday gift is good for the person, and it must be original] It turned out to be just a Moments post! Ning Wenru was relieved, and felt mysteriously happy. He checked his Moments again, and found that he had been blocked by Pang Zaiyuan! He didn’t even see this Moments post.
It looks like Pang Zaiyuan is going to give him a surprise!
Ning Wenru was feeling a little excited, and typed a reply to Yamei: I was in the laboratory, and I only found out about it recently. When I told you before, I didn’t know that he had someone he liked.
Yamei: What should I do? Does the senior know who he is after? Is she pretty? What type? Do I still have a chance?
Ning Wenru inhumanely began to show off his affection and typed a reply: Hey, you also saw the circle of friends. Zaiyuan is obsessed with his girlfriend recently. His girlfriend is smart, lively, cute, has good grades, and is a good person.
Then Ning Wenru added more cruelly: On the night before the game, he did not return home all night. They are all used by others. Yamei, don't hang yourself on one tree. There are many people chasing you.
After typing these words, Ning Wenru's face turned very red. He comforted Yamei for a while with a mysterious mood, and then received a chat message from Pang Zaiyuan.
Yuan: Why are you still awake so late?
Ning Wenru rolled over with the quilt in his arms and replied: I miss you so much that I can't sleep, I want to hug you to sleep, but hugging the quilt is not as comfortable as hugging youYuan: Fuck, me tooYuan: Turn on the video Then, Pang Zaiyuan sent a request for a video chat.