Abstract

The operation of offshore structures at sea requires implementation of the advanced systems of permanent monitoring of work of such the installations. Novel solutions concerning such the systems should be associated with application of unmanned maritime surface and underwater platforms. The unmanned maritime platforms are and will be based on application of the newest achievements of some important technologies. Between these technologies is an important role to be played by the AI artificial technology used by the advanced control systems. The implementations of the advanced systems of permanent monitoring of work of offshore installations using the AI-based systems may provide an increase of the level of functionality, performance and safety of such the structures and systems. This paper presents a general approach to further development of the AUV Autonomous Underwater Vehicle and USV-WIG Unmanned Surface - Wing in Ground Vehicles equipped with a control system based on the AI technology. It is shown within the paper that it is relatively easy to develop an idea of implementation of the AUV and USV-WIG unmanned maritime vehicles but in the same time it is difficult task indeed to reach a level of real applications. The paper presents a general approach to the AUV and USV-WIG vehicle designs. A complexity of an approach to a vehicle design is shown by using the performance-oriented risk-based method. The main design drives are presented too. A brief description concerning a control system for both the AUV and USV-WIG vehicles based on the mini-brain AI control system is described. Some results of research in this area are presented. In final part of the paper the practical remarks and conclusions are given.

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