The project «Personnel for BAS» has been launched at SSUGT

As part of the implementation of the federal project «Personnel for Unmanned Aircraft Systems» of the state program of the Russian Federation «Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation», the Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies, which previously received the status of the Support Center for training personnel in the field of unmanned aircraft systems, has developed two additional professional programs for advanced training in the field of UAS development, production and operation. State support for this project will allow young and promising students to acquire new knowledge, skills, abilities, as well as immerse themselves in current technologies and advanced areas of the UAS field, and gain real practical experience. Participants will have to solve a practical problem from an organization working in the UAS field under the guidance of an expert of the organization and a mentor of the Support Center, as well as develop and present a product result of solving an engineering problem (model, prototype, working sample). One of the educational programs «Improving the Safety of Using UAVs: Developing Software for UAVs Equipped with a Single-Board Computer» provides the competencies necessary for developing a hardware and software solution that performs an emergency stop of the UAV upon detecting an obstacle, based on the domestic single-board computer Repka Pi.

The presence of an obstacle detection system on board an unmanned aerial vehicle is one of the means of ensuring flight safety. Similar systems are widely used in multi-rotor UAVs of the world's leading manufacturers (DJI, Parrot, etc.). The study and design of means for increasing the autonomy and safety of UAVs is an urgent task in training engineering personnel. The task facing students is to select the necessary sensors and develop software for an emergency stop of a multi-rotor drone upon detecting an obstacle.

– A special feature of this course is that its participants are given an engineering task. At the end of the course, students must present a solution to this problem. It is with such a solution that the completion of the advanced training course is counted. The guys encounter many things for the first time. As a mentor, I must form a conceptual base for students, expand their horizons so that team members can solve this problem and acquire the necessary skills to work with specialized software. There is also a subtask - information search, again it is necessary to give the direction in which this search should be carried out. In the future, with the help of the results that they receive at individual stages, students should come to a solution to the task. There are only 6 participants in our team. There are two more teams that solve another engineering problem. And these teams must present conceptually different solution options. Therefore, there is no such replication of the same result by different teams, - commented Associate Professor of the Department of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Nikitin.

- I am pleased with the work in our team, we were able to create a friendly atmosphere. I think this is very important, because we spend a lot of time together. The courses are very intensive, we receive a lot of new information every day and use it in practice. For me, this is an invaluable experience, because after graduating from the University, I would like to delve deeper into this area and, perhaps, create a company that would deal with UAS. I am grateful to the University for the opportunity to participate in such projects, - said Andriana Pivkina, a 3rd-year bachelor's student of the Geodesy and Remote Sensing program.