The "Discovery 1000" underwater robot, developed by the Shenyang Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has completed a 35-hour test under the sea and obtained a number of Antarctic low zone ocean data.
This is also the first time that a Chinese underwater robot has conducted long-duration undersea research activities at high Antarctic latitudes, local media reported.
Although the technical means of robots are quite sophisticated today, the difficulty factor is greatly increased when they are placed in water. Because the propagation of underwater control signals is also not a small problem.
According to Jiang Zhibin, a member of the Snow Dragon expedition, the "Discovery 1000" underwater robot development began as early as 2013, by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenyang Institute of Automation is responsible for the overall technical design, and with the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Oceanography jointly participated in the development of
At the same time, the Discovery 1000 has participated in experiments in the waters around the Yellow Sea, East Sea and South China Sea of China to test the reliability of its functional characteristics while conducting scientific research on Discovery.
The underwater robot is capable of traveling over 1,000 kilometers in waters up to 800 meters below the surface and is equipped with research equipment capable of detecting ocean currents, CTD (temperature and salt depth), turbidity, dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll and other important oceanographic data.
In this experiment, the underwater robot successfully navigated the water for more than 35 hours, with a range of 68 kilometers and 17 ocean planes in the Antarctic region, with an observation depth of 100 meters and normal detection data.
This also shows that China's self-developed underwater robots are capable of detecting important marine data in extreme environments such as very low latitudes and high temperatures. It also lays a good technical foundation for the next step in the development of Chinese under-ice robots.
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