Researchers at Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in Siberia are developing new telecommunications systems to monitor and control next gen self-contained underwater robots, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported last week, citing TPU’s vice rector for science and innovation, Mikhail Sonkin.
In this effort the Siberian University is collaborating with the Institute of Oceanic Technology Problems, a think-tank located in Vladivostok, in Russia’s Far East, run by the Russian Academy of Sciences. The institute is reportedly developing and building self-contained unmanned underwater robots.
The robots are underwater craft that can operate and move freely at a depth of up to six kilometers. Each is equipped with a robot-to-operator communication system enabling wireless data and image transmission.
The TPU scientists will be upgrading these crafts’ existing telecom systems, sensor complexes, mathematical algorithms and software, as well as constructing new ones.
