MODULAR AUTONOMOUS UNMANNED UNDERWATER VESSEL Russian patent published in 2023 - IPC B63G8/00 

FIELD: underwater marine engineering

SUBSTANCE: modular autonomous uninhabited underwater vessel contains an outer metal case that combines four separate sealed modules, the walls between which are made of a radio-transparent material. All modules are equipped with power sources and radio modules that communicate between sealed modules and form a wireless information and control network. The fore module contains a vision system, including a side-scan sonar, cameras and a forward-looking echo sounder. The second module houses an information and measuring system that contains temperature, depth, electrical conductivity and sound velocity sensors. A computer and a control electronic unit, a satellite communication device and a hydroacoustic communication device are installed in the third control and communication module. In the fourth propulsion module, a propulsion electric motor and independent steering devices are located, devices for charging and controlling the level of charge of power sources are connected to the inputs of power sources with their power outputs, the control outputs of which are connected to the inputs of electric winches, on the hooks of power cables wound on the first drums of double-drum electric winches. Devices for converting wave energy into electrical energy are fixed in the niches of the outer metal case, which are fixed in the niches of the outer metal case with the help of electric locks.

EFFECT: increase in the time of autonomous navigation is achieved due to the use of the energy of the rotational movement of the impellers floating on the surface of the water.

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