One of the main tasks of the submarine, which was created by students at the Faculty of Engineering at Assiut University in southern Egypt, is to learn about the nature of life under water, repair ship failures, and reach places that are impossible for humans to reach.
Ali Emad, the team leader who worked on the design and development of the submarine, says that it is “equipped with an arm to perform underwater missions, and was developed to carry out internal and external inspections of underwater pipelines, and tests for offshore platforms.”
Imad added in an interview with “Sky News Arabia”: “The robot submarine can reach very deep places that are difficult for humans to reach, and through cameras and artificial intelligence, it can transmit the image and identify the forms of life under water, and identify living organisms and solid objects.”
The submarine is equipped with three cameras that allow the transmission of images and videos from the depths of the water, and they are controlled remotely.
According to the team leader, who they called Assiut Robotics, it took 3 years to work on the submarine.
According to Imad, the submarine operates with technology almost similar to that of drones, with the different nature of its work in the water, as it is able to identify the elements under water, differentiate between the living and the dead and know the sizes, he said.
Professor and Head of the Electrical Engineering Department at Assiut University, Ali Mohamed Youssef, considered the new submarine a “distinguished invention that will have a significant impact in the field of maintaining lines, cables and underwater oil pipelines.”
Youssef explained in an interview with “Sky News Arabia” that “the submarine operates with 6 engines to propel in different directions, without a diver, and its weight does not exceed 30 kilograms, and it predicts foreign objects in the water to take a reaction towards it.”
Assiut University Vice President for Education and Student Affairs Shehata Gharib praised the team’s work, stressing that the students are “essential partners in serving their country, its renaissance and progress in light of the expansion of automation and artificial intelligence processes in the world.”
During his meeting with the team, Gharib confirmed that he will get all means of support at the material or moral level with the continuous follow-up of his project, and encourage him to participate in various relevant regional and international competitions and forums.
Amira Walid, a member of the team, told Sky News Arabia: “We will work to add many systems to reduce the time the submarine takes to carry out missions, and improve the mechanical system for it to make it smaller and respond faster in dealing with different objects.”
It is worth noting that the team, consisting of 9 students from different disciplines of the Faculty of Engineering at the university, won the local qualifiers for the MATE ROV robotic submarine, which was held at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology in Alexandria, to qualify for the global qualifiers to be held in the United States later.
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