Russia to create offshore anthropomorphic robotic system
Russian developers have created an integrated anthropomorphic marine robotic system for offshore operations.
Co-developed by OJSC Scientific Production Association ‘Android Techniques’, the project entails the robotic system providing the interaction of underwater, surface and air unmanned vehicles, while an Intellectual Information Management System (IMS) enables an operator to simplify and automate the behaviour control of robots.
The IMS allows the operator to develop a mission, test it, programme the functioning of each robot, monitor the process execution and the technical condition of the elements of the complex robotic system, collect and process the incoming data, quickly correct the actions or change the mission completely.
Presented in September
The project, thought to be unique, will be presented by MariNet, the National Technology Initiative (NTI) working group, at the International Exhibition NEVA-2017 in St Petersburg in September.
The National Technology Initiative is the programme set up for the creation of fundamentally new markets and the creation of conditions for global technological leadership of Russia by 2035.
Implementation of the National Technology Initiative (NTI) was one of the key tasks set by the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, in December 2014.
Mikhail Ivanov, director of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade’s department of Machine-Tool Manufacture & Investment Mechanical Engineering, said that the ministry is interested in the promotion of domestic production of high-tech products, in increasing the share of domestic components and in development of offshore innovative technology solutions.
By Rebecca Jeffrey
