USC presented promising technologies for oil and gas, logistics, ship repair, and hydrography at a conference in St. Petersburg. This was reported to “Pervy Tekhnichesky” by the corporation's press service. Among the solutions presented are a line of autonomous and remotely operated underwater vehicles, uncrewed vessels, as well as a unified software platform. It combines navigation, hydrographic data collection, communication, and artificial intelligence modules into a single end-to-end stack.
Separately, USC showcased concepts for protecting port waters based on boom-net barriers and modular seismic exploration complexes with control of groups of up to 1000 devices.
According to USC's engineering unit, vessel mobilization in case of an accident takes 4–14 days. A resident marine robotic complex responds within a few hours. This reduces financial losses from drilling platform downtime by 85% and replaces 80% of daily monitoring, inspection, and light repair tasks.
Another scenario is operational diagnostics of a vessel's condition at anchor or at the pier. The underwater vehicle inspects the hull and propeller-rudder complex, identifies damage, and transmits video information to the operator. The shipowner makes a decision on repair faster, and the ship repair enterprise determines the scope of work in advance.
USC intends to create a line of marine robotic complexes for serial production. The main design principle is the development of equipment for a given cost.