Free Web NovelChapter 901: Chapter 464 Warhawk-1 Design Finalization_2
The Power Engineering Laboratory had become much busier, with many professionals coming and going, making the Mechanical Experiment Building resemble a bustling company.
The Warhawk Special Research Group actually consisted of only three people, Zhao Yi, Lei Yong, and Bao Enhong.
Lei Yong and Bao Enhong had become very busy as they undertook to interface the data with technical personnel from relevant institutions, comprehensively understanding the equipment requirements and their impact on the aircraft design.
Afterwards, they would submit detailed reports to Zhao Yi. Zhao Yi was responsible for reading these reports to determine how to refine and modify the overall design of the aircraft.
The task of refining and modifying the aircraft design was very simple for Zhao Yi. Generally, after some research, the results would come out directly. He also discovered the benefits of having professionals prepare the handover work in advance; the work content would end up being direct "design problems" at his end, with no further discussion on additional requirements.
Sometimes, he didn’t even need to spend any Study Coins; a simple adjustment in the design would yield results in no time.
Zhao Yi’s main focus was on the aerodynamic shaping and the electronic control systems for the components.
The design key of the Warhawk-1 lay in the shape and components, which had added many automatic controls, especially the wings and tail. To generalize about wings and tail would be too vague, as many parts of the wings and tail operated independently.
For instance, the trailing edge flaps.
Trailing edge flaps deflect downwards according to needs to increase lift during flight.
The design of the Warhawk-1 allowed for the trailing edge flaps to automatically change direction and align parallel with the body of the aircraft to reduce drag during steady flight.
The leading edge flaps functioned similarly.
Ailerons were one of the main control surfaces of an aircraft, and by using differential ailerons, the aircraft could roll. However, they were useless most of the time and could retract when not in use.
Other components like the vertical stabilizer, rudder, dorsal fins, as well as the deployed landing gear and internal weapons bay could automatically adjust according to the flight state, keeping the aircraft in its "optimal state" to meet flight demands and conditions.
This required a very powerful electronic control system to coordinate.
In fact,
a fighter jet’s automatic overall adjustment electronic control system was very high-end internationally, so advanced that even the most sophisticated fighters in M Country only possessed simple adjustment functions, some of which still required manual operation by the pilot.
Comprehensive automatic adjustments thus appeared highly intelligent.
The main difficulty with this technology was that it had to clearly capture the pilot’s operational intentions in the aircraft’s master control system, which involved the capacity to transfer manual control actions between the cockpit and the controls, as well as precise sensory control abilities.
Sensors were not the problem; the focus was on the control system’s internal analysis.
Zhao Yi quickly completed the framework of the main control system, and later realized that the most important aspect was the analysis algorithm. Determining the pilot’s most likely intent based on data from the sensors was the key to the main control system. ƒreewebɳovel.com
Of course, there was a simpler method, which was to design a few fixed modes for the aircraft, allowing it to directly switch to corresponding modes. However, such direct mode changes could make the aircraft’s adjustment process too rigid during flight and conflict with the functionality of individual components in the shape design, which automatically adjusted according to wind force and direction.
Therefore, it was necessary to design three modes: an Intelligent Control System that allowed the system to do all the calculations, simplifying the pilot’s operations.
One for embedded modal states, locking in a few of the most commonly used modes.
And finally, an emergency manual control mode.
In cases where control systems failed or under extremely dire circumstances, the pilot could choose to enter manual control mode, locking the positions of several external components to respond effectively.
To maximize the performance of the Warhawk-1, reliance on the intelligent control system was key.
Zhao Yi spent a long time developing the Intelligent Control System, feeling as if he had returned to his "old profession". His initial achievements were in computer algorithms, and the new intelligent algorithm was quite interesting because its difficulty was on par with solving world-class mathematical problems.
However, Zhao Yi’s R&D life was relatively relaxed since he couldn’t put himself under pressure. The biggest limitation was the availability of Study Coins; once they were nearly depleted, he would save up some Daily Coins and then find time to work on challenging algorithm research.
Although Zhao Yi felt that the development of the Intelligent Control System was slow, in reality, compared to his own standards, the completion time wasn’t slow.
About three months after the new year, he had finished all the coding and used "Supervision Law" to check and do some debugging. After discovering no issues, he concluded the project.
At the same time,
people in the Warhawk Special Research Group, including Yuan Haitao, Zhou Qing, and others, had been working with Zhao Yi for a long time and knew what he was specifically doing.
They didn’t understand as they were laymen.
Lei Yong and Bao Enhong, on the other hand, had some understanding. They were confident in Zhao Yi’s capabilities but considering the Warhawk-1’s design, which required intelligent control of many components, they believed the development would take a long time.
