APPLICATION OF BLUNUX OPERATION SYSTEM FOR THE INDERWATER UNMANNED VEHICLES CONTROL

Abstract

Last few years different unmanned vehicles which work on the ground, in the air, on the water and under the water, solving countless tasks in different fields of human activity are being created, applied and upgraded at unprecedented speed. A lot of these tasks could not be solved earlier principally, or could be solved with significantly worse quality. Some of unmanned vehicles can be fully autonomous and can perform the algorithm of actions, developed beforehand, and allow operator’s intervention in the case of necessity, and some of these unmanned vehicles may be controlled directly by operator. Such unmanned vehicles may have different main characteristics like application field, productivity of embedded computer system, velocity of moving, time of autonomous work, cost, possibilities of upgrading and programming, communication protocols, the number of ports for external equipment connecting, functional possibilities, control means, using of navigation and positioning systems and so on. Remotely operated intelligent unmanned underwater vehicle, controlled on the base of integrated computer system and Blunux operation system of Linux operation systems family, and its additional software modules which allow to expand the spectrum of the tasks, which are being solved, including the way of the user application software development with the using of special software libraries are analyzed in this paper. The analysis of the diagonals, refresh rates, ratios of the displays sides and displays resolutions, which may be used on the operator’s computer system or the corresponding human-machine interface, is performed. Methodic of the calculation of the necessary channel’s data transfer rate between the underwater unmanned vehicle and operator’s computer system or specialized data processing and storing center by wired physical data transfer line depending on the necessary resolution, refresh rate and operator’s display color gamma or settings of video files storing with the using of different algorithms of data compression or without it, is proposed.