METHOD FOR FULL-SCALE TESTING OF UNMANNED VESSELS Russian patent published in 2022 - IPC G01M10/00 

FIELD: shipbuilding.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to shipbuilding, namely, to methods for full-scale testing of unmanned and autonomous vessels. Method consists in setting the route of the vessel and comparing said route with the actual trajectory of movement, determined based on the current location of the object by means of the measurement equipment complex installed thereon, including an inertial measuring module, multi-antenna GNSS receiving equipment, an antenna module, a motion control system, a control computer and associated recording equipment, followed by processing the data automatically and transmitting the results to a land-based observation board or to the automated workplace of the operator. Additionally included therein is determining the exact position of the fore and aft ends of the vessel, accounting for the impact of the current and the wind load on the object of tests. The route of the vessel is therein limited by navigation buoys equipped with measuring modules, including: an apparatus for converting solar or wind energy into direct current, a power source configured to accumulate electrical power, 5.8 MHz long-range Wi-Fi transceivers configured to locate, a GNSS signal receiver, a 3G/4G LTE modem, a weather station in the surface part and a profiler for the currents in the underwater part of the buoy, as well as a microcomputer for processing the recorded information and transmitting data to the land-based observation board or to the automated workplace of the operator.

EFFECT: increase in the accuracy of determining the tactical and technical characteristics of the object of tests, unmanned or autonomous surface vessel, raising the accuracy of measurement of the current location thereof.

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