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The final defense of projects by grant recipients for financial support of research and development (R&D) work to ensure the technological independence and global competitiveness of Russian unmanned aerial systems in priority technology areas took place on November 19. Vice-Rector Maria Karelina, SUMU research fellow and project manager Dmitry Nikitin, and Chief Designer of JSC Ploshchad, Alexander Kostin, presented their R&D project on the topic of "Development of a technology for controlling a swarm of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) based on artificial intelligence for the effective implementation of group deployment scenarios" to the NTI expert jury.
Drone Swarm: A Service-Based Approach
The research aims to minimize human involvement in unmanned aerial vehicle control and simultaneously enable UAVs to perform group tasks. The R&D goal is to develop an integrated network computing environment—an infrastructure for UAV control—that implements centralized, partially centralized, and autonomous scenarios. The demonstrator, delivered as a result of this work, will be a powerful server with deployed software for task planning and drone swarm management in a centralized scenario, as well as for swarms in semi-centralized and autonomous scenarios.
The economic impact is achieved through the implementation of a service-based approach, whereby ready-made computers and software enable the rapid modernization of existing UAVs, as well as the ability to provide device management services. The system created as part of this project is infinitely scalable, has no hidden data, and will be developed entirely by domestic developers. It is an important component of Russia's technological sovereignty.
The project will be implemented jointly with its industrial partner, NPO RUSTECHDRON, a Russian technology company engaged in the development and production of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), and the training of pilots and technical specialists. The co-implementer is JSC Ploshchad, a leading developer of software and hardware solutions for the military and civilian use of drones using artificial intelligence technologies.
The project submitted to the competition was highly rated by experts and received a grant of 294.7 million rubles for its implementation. The meeting minutes are posted on the NTI Foundation website.
Science and technology
Over the past three years, the State University of Management has been actively developing the field of unmanned aerial systems and creating the necessary research infrastructure within the university. Currently, the State University of Management's Engineering Project Management Center is working on three key UAS projects:
Development and justification of approaches to planning and implementing the introduction, deployment, and organization of the use of autonomous unmanned systems, robotic complexes, and infrastructure networks for communication, navigation, surveillance, and control, ensuring the operation of such systems and complexes, with specified regulatory levels of flight and movement safety of the complexes, and the probability of performing functional tasks. Development of a methodology for the application of software and hardware systems for autonomous unmanned aerial photography and technology for automatic vectorization of its results for the purposes of construction supervision. Analysis of the production and use of robotic devices and complexes in the construction industry and forecasting demand for a negative, inertial, and innovative scenario.
Furthermore, in 2025, TSUIP specialists won the 2nd All-Russian Competition for Young Scientists. The project, "Hybrid Decision Support System: Integration of a ML Cascade and LLM for Synthesizing Analytics in Logistics," addresses one of the key challenges of modern logistics in the transport industry: processing large volumes of disparate data.
BAS: university base
The Digital Innovations for Industry Lab has been opened at the State University of Management (SUM) within the RosGeoTech Advanced Engineering School. The lab is implementing the ABRIS project, which aims to create a hardware and software system for automated monitoring of oil and gas infrastructure facilities using unmanned aerial systems and mobile robots.
A major research project in the agricultural sector is dedicated to ensuring food security through the development of hardware and software systems and intelligent digital platform solutions. The project partners with high-tech companies specializing in robotics, unmanned systems, and digital agricultural solutions, including Cognitive Technologies, DigitalAgro, GeoScan, and others.
The Student Design Bureau of the State University of Management is working on areas such as the development of equipment, software, and infrastructure for UAS, mobile and technological robotic systems for solving problems in the oil and gas industry, the development of a highly maneuverable high-speed UAV, the creation of a portable anti-drone system, and the creation of machine vision systems.
The scientific groundwork of the State University of Management will serve as a fundamental basis for the successful implementation of a new research project in the field of UAS, aimed at developing a technology for controlling a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles based on artificial intelligence for the effective implementation of group deployment scenarios.
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