Alternative Ways for Deep Sea Research and Improving Methods for Automatic Control Systems of Underwater Robotics

The report examines deep-sea inhabited and uninhabited underwater vehicles and robotic systems (RSs), which already allow the deployment of near-bottom autonomous and remotely controlled technical means for long-term and planned oceanological, geophysical, biological and many other studies. Ways and methods of increasing the accuracy of launching autonomous RSs into a given area of work and finding the most interesting anomalous research objects are considered. The analysis is based on half a century of experience in the creation and use of autonomous and remotely controlled underwater robots at the IMTP FEB RAS.