The system was developed by schoolchildren under the guidance of scientists from PNRPU (Perm National Research Polytechnic University). The system includes underwater and aircraft-type drones. The former detect nets with caught fish, and the latter track poachers.
The prototype includes a web-based monitoring and control system, an environmental model, a watercraft robot for searching for objects, and a UAV. Many people have a robot vacuum cleaner at home. The monitoring system can work on a similar principle. Underwater or surface unmanned boats, guided by satellites, bypass rivers that are difficult for people to access. Then this process is repeated again and again.
The authors of the project claim that their development will allow for the prompt detection of cases of illegal fishing.
One of the students at the Polytechnic School, Maxim Mosin, said that when a poacher's net is discovered, the coordinates are recorded, and then the message is transmitted to the appropriate authority. He emphasized that now violators will be caught in a targeted manner.
The developers are confident that their robotic system is relevant for the whole of Russia, but it will be especially useful in the Far East, where two-thirds of the country's fish and seafood are harvested and where cases of poaching are most often recorded.
Earlier it was reported that thirty robots will be sent to work in flooded mines in Russia.
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