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2023: Making a Drone Working Without Satellite Navigation

In August 2023, the Russian company Maind announced a drone capable of flying and "navigating" in space without using satellite navigation. To create it, the neural network was trained on the database obtained after the drone races.

The drone is designed for fully autonomous navigation. It can fly, including underground, in caves, can be used to find and save people... All tactical operations are carried out on board, it was developed taking into account the use of neural networks, - Mikhail Lipatov, General Director of Maind, told TASS.

A drone operating without satellite navigation was created in Russia

According to him, the UAV is equipped with special cameras that allow it to navigate the terrain if the connection with the satellite suddenly disappears. The drone can take on board a cargo of up to 4 kg weighing. This will allow the device to deliver basic necessities to victims - water, medicines or a location tracking sensor. The device is compact, so it can penetrate gorges or small holes. The maximum acceleration is 90 km/h.

The development of the drone began at the end of 2022. The company responsible for the development regularly held drone biathlon competitions, collecting data for its research and further training in artificial intelligence. AI training took place at the digital training ground. The neural network processed the data obtained during the competition, and on their basis developed the UAV project.

Maind is developing unmanned aerospace systems with artificial intelligence. The company, as indicated on its website, is a symbiosis of a production enterprise and a research laboratory, thanks to which developers create autonomous unmanned systems with unique characteristics, as well as navigation and communication subsystems, and special software for a wide range of tasks, including cross-platform solutions and cloud services.^[1]

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