TOMSK, Mar 25 – RIA Tomsk. The Software developed in Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) for underwater robots will pass tests in September within the Arctic expedition, Mikhail Sonkin has reported on Friday at a meeting of the working group of the INO Tomsk project of the deputy governor on scientific educational complex and innovative policy.
According to him, the software has been developed within the "Creation of Control Systems of Independent Uninhabited Submersibles for Applied Works on the Arctic Shelf" project. Higher education institutions, the scientific organizations and the industrial enterprises of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Ryazan, Tomsk and other cities participate in it.
"The project on creation of independent submersibles for works in the Arctic shelf. It was mentioned that the Arctic issues are of current interest. The issue has already passed from scientific into the applied area. In September real Arctic expedition, where the device with our software is to be checked, will take place", – Sonkin has told.He has noted that the project concerning independent submersibles needs not only developments of TPU, but also other Tomsk higher education institutions, and also innovative enterprises.
Earlier it was reported that TPU realizes the "Telecommunication Systems of Monitoring and Management for Independent Underwater Robots" megaproject. Scientists create hardware and software for new generation of the independent uninhabited submersibles (IUS). Scientists have to provide a complex of the equipment for underwater tests in Vladivostok in 2016.