From June 17 to June 20, the Novosibirsk State Technical University (NETI) hosted the track "Unmanned aircraft systems" of the design and educational intensive "Island". The final events of the "Islands" will be held at the Expocentre Novosibirsk on June 21.
The progress of the Island's events, the prospects for the development of unmanned aircraft systems and the creation of the NPC UAS in the region were discussed at a press conference in TASS (Novosibirsk) on June 20.
Irina Manuilova, Deputy Governor of the Novosibirsk Region, noted that the purpose of all the Island sites is a deep dive into the country's development trends. Among the goals and objectives of the new national projects outlined by the President of the Russian Federation are the development of the unmanned sphere in the regions of Russia, as well as improving the quality and life expectancy of the population. The tracks of the "Island" are focused on solving these problems.
"Following the results of the Island, we will prepare a regional team to participate in the Archipelago: These are more than 30 people — scientists, students, manufacturing companies and government representatives. Unprecedented competitions are expected: more than a thousand drones will take to the sky over the Sakhalin airfield. Within the framework of Ostrov, a rich program has been prepared for the development of Russian technological and social projects that can become part of new markets. Participants find professional contacts within the intensive and form project teams. Already more than 700 participants, half of whom are from other subjects of the Russian Federation — 52 regions, take part in the "Island", — said Irina Manuilova.
The events of the "Islands" at the site of NSTU-NETI, dedicated to the subject of UAS, gathered more than 400 industry specialists. For four days, work was carried out on the sections "Scenarios for the use of UAS", "NPC, NPC residents and the UAS Market", "Personnel for the UAS industry", a hackathon of unmanned aircraft systems of the Advanced Engineering School of NSU and competitions of FPV drone operators took place.
The section "NPTs, Residents of NPUs and the UAS Market" under the leadership of Dmitry Letunov, head of the Center for Analysis and Development of ANO FC BAS, was devoted to working out a wide range of tasks related to the activities of research and production centers of unmanned aircraft systems: from analyzing the regulatory framework and reviewing support measures to preparing applications for participation in specialized competitions.
The UAS research and production center has been established in the Novosibirsk Region, its concept assumes the presence of a flight test complex, a laboratory and research center, a collective use center to accommodate pilot and small-scale production and prototyping, educational, educational and competitive infrastructure.
Vadim Vasiliev, Minister of Science and Innovation Policy of the Novosibirsk Region, noted that a wide range of federal and regional support is provided for NPTs and residents of the center.
Representatives of high-tech companies and scientific organizations apply for residency in the established scientific and production center of UAS NSO. The proposed sites for the accommodation of residents of the NPC UAS NSO are Novosibirsk State Technical University (NETI), the site of JSC Technopark of Novosibirsk Akademgorodok and the Siberian Scientific Research Institute of Aviation named after S. A. Chaplygin.
Thanks to the "Priority 2030" program, NSTU-NETI is increasing its competencies in the field of UAS, including training personnel for the development of the industry. The university is ready to train about 200 employees for the new NPC UAS of the Novosibirsk region. "In addition, more than 10 youth laboratories are currently being created at the university within the framework of Priority 2030, including a laboratory for unmanned aircraft systems worth 16 million rubles. 20 employees will be involved in its work. Among the main activities are the development, design and manufacture of prototypes of a new type of UAS, a new type of electric motors and communication modules for UAS, training of UAS control operators, research work on this topic," commented Anatoly Bataev, Rector of NSTU-NETI.
The participants of the section "Personnel for the UAS industry" discussed the implementation of the federal project of the same name, as well as shared their experience and practice in training personnel for the industry.
"The section was visited by 46 people from different regions of the country (St. Petersburg, Moscow, Astrakhan, Samara, Kemerovo, Angarsk, Perm and others). These are representatives of schools, institutions of secondary vocational education and universities. Some colleagues have already presented educational training programs. Several important issues were discussed at the section. The first of them is that the industry has great human resources needs, and there is no one to teach. The second problem is the flight locations. And the third point is that not only pilots should be trained, but also specialists related to the maintenance of UAS, as well as personnel training for the production and creation of new technologies in the field of UAS. NSTU-NETI acted as a resource center, as a platform where participants received detailed information about the federal project "Personnel for unmanned Aircraft Systems", contacts of colleagues who have already implemented educational programs, and also exchanged practical experience. Our university will take an active part in the implementation of the federal project. A youth laboratory of unmanned aircraft systems is being created at NSTU-NETI, where students will be engaged in the design and production of UAVs. It is also possible in the future to create a special platform for flights," said Kirill Zubarev, one of the heads of the Personnel for UAS section, head of the Boiling Point of NSTU-NETI.
During the work of the UAS Application Scenarios section, representatives of companies from the UAV industry, universities and UAS manufacturing enterprises discussed the needs of the market and its technological capabilities, profitable business solutions. The section discussed the formation of a regional ecosystem of UAS application scenarios, as well as the technical and economic boundaries of UAV application scenarios.
"The main result of the "Island" is the opportunity to see "empty" places, to identify the range of tasks that have not yet been fully studied in the field of UAS application in our region. As a result of the intensive work, we have a ready—made package of draft solutions, with the authors of which we will continue to communicate for further refinement in order to build an ecosystem of drones within the region," summed up the work of the head of the section, director of development of the Sigma platform.Drone" Andrey Timofeev.
A hackathon was organized on the "Island" within the framework of the track "Unmanned Aviation systems" at NSU, which was attended by students and teachers of NSU, NSTU-NETI, NGAU, SibGUTI, SGUGiT, SGUPS in engineering, technology and physics and mathematics areas. Students from specialized engineering classes also joined the work of the UAS track.
The participants of the "Island" got acquainted with the NSTU-NETI by visiting the Faculty of Aircraft and the prototyping center, the campus locations with scientific graffiti and the museum named after G. P. Lyshinsky.
Intensive "Island" is organized by the Government of the Novosibirsk region, the Foundation for Scientific and Technological Development of the Novosibirsk region with the support of the NGO "NTI Platform".