CONTROL SYSTEM FOR GROUP OF AUTONOMOUS UNINHABITED UNDERWATER VEHICLES Russian patent published in 2024 - IPC G01V1/38 B63G8/00 

FIELD: robotics for marine seismic exploration of underwater mineral deposits.

SUBSTANCE: invention can be used for automatic control of a group of autonomous uninhabited underwater vehicles for marine geophysical research. A control system for a group of autonomous uninhabited underwater vehicles consisting of a vessel including a control post, sets of devices for launching/receiving vehicles, autonomous uninhabited underwater vehicles, hydroacoustic transponder beacons, can initiate and perform geophysical research missions both in ice-free water areas and covered with ice all year round or most of the year. The missions with route assignments and parameters for constructing a group of autonomous uninhabited underwater vehicles are formed at the control post. The missions are performed by a group of autonomous uninhabited underwater vehicles in a fully automatic mode and begin with the group leaving the sets of launching/receiving devices, then passing the target mission trajectory in the geophysical research area, after receiving the group of autonomous uninhabited underwater vehicles into the set of launching/receiving devices. In the process of formation by a group of autonomous uninhabited underwater vehicles, the control system of the group of autonomous uninhabited underwater vehicles automatically assigns autonomous underwater vehicles as leaders in the group, depending on the configuration of the formation. For high-precision positioning of the group, the geophysical research area is equipped with hydroacoustic transponder beacons.

EFFECT: increasing the efficiency of the control system of autonomous uninhabited underwater vehicles with an underwater set of launching/receiving devices and increasing the positioning accuracy of a group of autonomous uninhabited underwater vehicles in the water column.

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