At the South Ural State University, they decided to fundamentally change the ideas about the vision of mobile robots. Inspiration was found in the device of the eyes of insects. What is a unique new invention and where to find application, read in our material.

In the SUSU, a mathematically calculated model of the eye of the insect. The information received will create “eyes” for robots on completely different principles, and the robot will be able to work without human participation. The model determines the distance to the object and the azimuth, and, therefore, the mobile robot will not need a person’s clues to recognize environmental objects.

When creating a mathematical model, an insect's eye was taken as a basis. He, like the future video sensor, consists of many "tiny independent photoreceptive units." The model of "facet vision" determines the conditions of visibility of the object with each lens. The data obtained are used to teach two neural networks. One of them determines the distance, and the second - the position of the object. The result allows the robot to lay a safe route and avoid collisions without human participation.

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To understand all the value of the discovery, we will figure out how mobile robots see now. Their vision is built on the use of several types of sensors - photo, IR, laser, pressure sensor. In one or another layout, there are at least 3 of 4 types of sensors. Further, the information is processed by auxiliary boards and transmitted to the main one, which calculates the route.

The disadvantages of the system are in a large number of involved modules and the difference in the data obtained. This complicates the miscalculation of the trajectory of movement. The stuck robots-scourges of one famous Russian developer is an example. The advantages of the new model are in simplifying the scheme and, as a result, a decrease in the number of errors.

Areas of using mobile robots are expanding. First of all, they perform delivery tasks. For example, such a robot will be able to deliver medicines to needy people. “Independent” robots will be in demand in the field of the Ministry of Emergencies.

You did not think that such a promising technology would not be interested in the domestic military-industrial complex?

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