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TOMSK, Oct 31 – RIA Tomsk. The underwater robots created with
the assistance of scientists of the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU)
successfully passed tests in the Arctic where they were used for studying of
underwater permafrost, the deputy director for development of TPU Institute of
Cybernetics Dmitry Sonkin reported.
Earlier it was reported that TPU realizes the megaproject
"Telecommunication monitoring and control systems for autonomous
underwater robots". Scientists create the hardware and software for new
generation of the independent unmanned submersible (IUS). Scopes of IUS – are
from search of the sunk submarines to neutralization of sea min.
"Tests were successful. The vessel at the beginning of November has to be
in Vladivostok. The device was used in the study of underwater permafrost
degradation", – Sonkin told.
According to him, during tests the functionality of the device was checked:
systems of technical sight, reserve communication and another. The case for it
was developed by scientists of Institute of problems of sea technologies of
RAS, and "stuffing" – by polytechnicians.
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He specified that at this stage the device conducted video filming of the
emissions of methane and carbon dioxide happening because of thawing of
underwater permafrost on the East Siberian shelf and also fixed an arrangement
of emissions and their sizes.
"We will train more expanded structure of payload for the next year to
participate comprehensively in researches and to approve them in actual
practice. Further we plan to equip, in particular, with complexes for
measurement of numerical indicators of the dissolved gas", – Sonkin added.
Earlier it was also reported that TPU scientists participate in the
international researches of the processes happening in the shelf of the polar
seas of Eastern Siberia where there are more than 90% of underwater permafrost
and a large amount of hydrocarbons. They found out that underwater permafrost
is unstable and from under it there are methane emissions which accelerate
global warming and can lead to accident.