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Telecommunication monitoring and control systems for the unmanned underwater vehicles

Why this project is urgent and important.

The project “Telecommunication monitoring and control systems for the unmanned underwater vehicles” aims at the scientific breakthrough and search for innovations in research that will definitely facilitate the University to secure its global academic recognition and competitive growth in the area of cognitive systems and telecommunication. The lessons learned will allow us to create the international platforms integrating the world best research practices into the training of highly qualified engineers in such an area as development of mathematical models, hardware and software for monitoring and control of the complex systems, that is unmanned underwater vehicles (hereinafter UUV).

The prime areas of UUV application are the following:

  • oceanographic research;
  • monitoring of the aquatic medium;
  • marine geologic exploration;
  • inspection of underwater engineering utilities and pipelines;
  • exploratory and rescue missions;
  • protection of the environment and mariculture.

The present project is of strategic importance for the development of marine robotics and the ocean exploration technologies while taking adequate decisions in case of emergency.

For the moment there is a critical need in the development of unmanned underwater vehicles, in particular the "smart" UUV of greater sustainability and larger operational radius. This requires innovative technology to support the telecommunication, underwater environment monitoring and control optimization for both a single UUV and a group thereof, as well as the development of up-to-date on-board information-measuring and navigation systems.

We’ve set the following goal for our project:

  • to develop the hardware and software information and telecommunication systems, supporting the implementation of the new performance capabilities for the next generation of UUV, and integrate the factual findings, knowledge and experience into the educational program “Information and communication technologies” in the area of system and ocean engineering.

This allows for to the uttermost getting closer to implementation of one of the global objectives of the TPU development program, which is creation of the world-class educational programs that enable the graduates to be competitive in the global labor market.

The project implies the completion of the following tasks which can be broken down into four groups:

    Group - Navigation and control, including:
  • Development of the methods for the UUV group control;
  • Development of the integrated telecommunication systems based on heterogenic communication channels.
  • Group – Software enhancement, including:
  • Creation of new solutions for big-data accumulation, storage and processing;
  • Development of the methods and techniques of underwater objects identification, as well as the methods for simulation modeling and UUV motion control.
  • Group – Hardware enhancement. This group comprises the activities on:
  • development of on-board information-measuring systems;
  • development of the flaw-detection methods
  • production of prototypes and preparation of technical documentation for project support.

The outputs of three groups above eventually will be integrated at the creation of the competitive educational products.

There expected the following key findings of the project:

  • the new technological approaches, functional models and scenarios of UUV group control;
  • the methods of the data transmission from UUV through satellite, radio, hydro-acoustic channels;
  • the new scientifically proven methods of the software and hardware complexes creation for telecommunication, monitoring and control;
  • the research findings of the UUV dynamic characteristics identification algorithms;
  • the on-board information and measurement systems using the sensors of sound velocity, temperature, pressure, magnetic field etc. and the sensors of underwater medium gas composition;
  • the results of use of the flaw detection technical means for underwater operation;
  • the prototypes and project design documentation;
  • the world-class Master's education program.

The Institute of Cybernetics has the necessary infrastructure available to realize the project. The core structural unit of the project will be the research laboratory of telecommunication, instrumentation and marine geology, established in 2014 jointly with the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Science Institute of Marine Technology Problems. As it has been mentioned before, this Institute is a leader in the development of UUV in Russia with 40 years of experience in production of underwater robotics which are widely used within Russia and in the world.

The implementation of the project suggests the involvement of a number of other structural units of our Institute.

As a whole the project will bring together 70 specialists, including 12 foreign experts. In conclusion, we would like to bring your attention to the fact that the benefits of the project for the development of the Institute and for the university as a whole are evident. They are:

  • the creation of a network partnership and cooperation, attracting leading scientists from all over the world;
  • the formation of an interdisciplinary basis of scientific development, involvement of the research and educational institutions, such as the Institute of non-destructive testing to develop the new NDT methods;
  • the expansion of the national education boundaries, the development of unique educational programs that provide the students with exclusive competences while creating a solid basis for competitiveness of the graduates in the labor market;
  • the creation of the reserve for the transition of the university into a format of the research master-postgraduate university;
  • the creation of new scientific schools.