An advanced "vision" system for vessels – boats and cutters – has been developed by Russian scientists. It can also be installed on water drones.
«Russian engineers have created technical vision for small river and sea vessels, including unmanned ones, which can recognize objects at a distance of up to 700 meters in the vessel's path in less than one second and build a trajectory for avoiding obstacles. The technology was developed by RobbBotKraft, a participating company in the NTI Marinet market», - the NTI Project Support Fund said about the development.
The system is a separate autonomous device. It classifies objects as dangerous (logs, shallows, nets) and non-dangerous (birds, debris), calculates avoidance trajectories, and warns with light and sound signals in case of dangerous approach.
«The key to our development is the absence of the need for constant human monitoring of the water space and making decisions on the trajectory of avoiding dangerous objects. Unlike other similar products on the global market, the cost of our development is five times lower in terms of the market for small vessels», - said the founder of the project, the head of RobbBotKraft LLC, Andrey Shapygin.
It is noted that the cost of developing the "technical vision" system amounted to about 10 million rubles, and about 20 million rubles are required to organize mass production.