Specialists from the Moscow Aviation Institute have developed an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) "Aurora-1MT" capable of processing information about ground objects in flight. The press service of the "Priority 2030" program of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation reported that the designers plan to make "Aurora-1MT" capable of continuing flight and calculations even in the event of loss of satellite signal.
For "Aurora-1MT", scientists have developed a flight controller with a tensor processor and a control board, trained a neural network, and programmed modules that allow performing tasks for monitoring objects in autonomous mode with information processing in flight. As part of the "Archipelago-2024" project-educational game, "Aurora-1MT" successfully performed tasks for searching and photo and video shooting of typical objects, such as cars and people. Algorithms for autonomous control and object detection on board the device were developed, taking into account the loss of control signals.
A representative of the IT Center of MAI, Petrukhov, said that the developers' immediate plans include creating a navigation algorithm that corrects the operation of the UAV using video signals and an inertial navigation system. This will allow the device, in case of loss of satellite signals, to calculate the coordinates of its location based on the previous flight path, autonomously perform the tasks and return to the point of departure or the zone of the last signal.
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