TSAMTO, November 20. In the Atrium of the Peter and Paul Fortress in the period from November 15 to 16, the Military Space Academy named after A.F.Mozhaisky organized and held the VII All-Russian Open exhibition "Scientific and Technical Creativity and Innovation" (NTTI-2023).
The event made it possible to demonstrate promising developments of space engineers, as well as to improve the quality of education and the effectiveness of scientific research.
In 2023, the exhibition took on a large–scale character and was held in the historical center of St. Petersburg - the Peter and Paul Fortress. As before, the event was available to all residents of the Northern capital. In two days, the scientific event was attended by more than 1,500 people, including representatives of educational institutions of the city, including military universities of St. Petersburg, employees of law enforcement agencies and military departments, specialists of defense industry enterprises, research institutes, design and design bureaus, pupils of St. Petersburg and Tver Suvorov military schools of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, and also yunarmeytsy.
At the opening ceremony of the event, the head of the Mozhaisky Military Space Academy, Major General Anatoly Nestechuk, welcomed the participants, who thanked the participants for their interest.
Within the framework of the exhibition, a competition was held for the best scientific and technical developments that can be used in the interests of the Aerospace Forces, as well as technologies aimed at improving the quality of education and scientific research. The competition commission included representatives of participating organizations, as well as leading experts in various innovative areas of science and technology. The commission was headed by the deputy head of the Academy for Academic and Scientific work, Major General Yuri Kuleshov.
Each development has its own novelty, or, as it is correct to say, innovation. After all, this is one of the main goals of this event – to find those scientific ideas that can be implemented in the future and get a high-quality result.
"We have brought to the exhibition a project of a small spacecraft for remote sensing of the Earth, designed to solve problems in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry. With the help of the device, we can get valuable information that will be useful for updating cartographic databases and analyzing man–made disasters," said Andranik Harutyunyan, a cadet of the Faculty of Aircraft Design.
Not only representatives of St. Petersburg, but also other cities of Russia, where active scientific activity in the field of rocket and space industry and military affairs is conducted, arrived to participate in the event. "Our complex is designed to study and train machine vision technologies and deep neural connections in the interests of detecting and recognizing samples of military equipment in real time using an unmanned aerial vehicle. I think that at this moment in time it is relevant and can find its application in the military," said Danil Petrov, a cadet of the Tver Suvorov Military School of the Russian Defense Ministry.
Students of the Baltic State Technical University "Voenmeh" named after D.F.Ustinov Golovanskikh Olga and Daniil Poznyak presented at the exhibition a launch vehicle for meteorological sounding of the earth, which is designed to bring the payload to the required height up to 2500 m. A launcher with a low weight and convenient for transportation was created for the invention. Also, young scientists from Voenmekh brought a promising development for the destruction of small-sized unmanned aerial vehicles. The author of the project Maxim Sozinov conducted a series of tests that confirmed the operability of the installation.
There were also works created to improve the educational process and the training of military specialists. "We present a simulator for studying special-purpose computing equipment. We strive to reduce the labor resources for collecting information about the device. The installation is planned to be used in the process of training military specialists," said cadet Andrey Shatrov, a student of the Faculty of Control Systems of Rocket and Space Complexes and Information Technology Support.
According to the results of the work of the competition commission, in the nomination "The best innovative project in the field of information technology", the winner was the exhibit "Program for identification and classification of clouds according to technical means of visual observation in the TV band". Authors Ivan Yaremenko and Dmitry Rusanov.
In the nomination "The best scientific and technical development", the leader was the exhibit "Launch vehicle for meteorological sensing of the Earth". The author's team is represented by D.F.Ustinov BSTU "Voenmeh": Olga Golovanskikh, Vyacheslav Saltykov and Daniil Poznyak.
In the nomination "The best presentation of an innovative project", there was no equal to the development of a "Mobile hardware and software complex for digital stabilization and resolution enhancement of a video stream from a mobile carrier based on neural networks", the authors of the project Igor Golubkov, Denis Dementiev and Fedor Dubovitsky.
In the nomination "Audience Award", the exhibit "Software and Hardware complex - machine vision simulator "Horizon", which was presented by Nikita Bondarenko, Danil Petrov, Alexey Lysenko and Alexander Lipchansky from the Tver Suvorov Military School of the Russian Ministry of Defense, unanimously won.
"The experience of holding the exhibition in such an open format will bring a positive effect not only for cadets and officers of the military university, but also for all young specialists of the city on the Neva. We plan to attract more and more engineers to participate in joint activities aimed at creating a unified space cluster of Russia," commented Colonel Alexander Feder, head of the Department of Organization of scientific work and training of scientific and pedagogical personnel of the Mozhaisky Military Space Academy.
Scientific creativity plays an important role in the activities of young scientists. Thanks to this process, engineers are able to create new technologies, develop innovative approaches and find solutions to the most complex problems facing the space industry. The Military Space Academy named after A.F.Mozhaisky, opening such an exhibition for all residents of St. Petersburg, prioritizes the motivation of young specialists to unlock the potential and engineering talent, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said in a statement.