It has been more than a month since the launch of electric trams along the Moscow River, but the number of people wishing to ride them does not decrease, every day long queues of passengers waiting for a boat ride gather at the berths.
In the capital’s water area, eight electric vessels run, named after the Moscow rivers: Sinichka, Setun, Presnya, Filka, Skhodnya, Ramenka, Yauza and Neglinka.
The first regular route of river transport connected the Kiev railway station with the berth “Heart of the Capital” on the Shelepikhinskaya embankment. Its length is 6.5 kilometers, but it is planned to open new berths by the end of the year.
And more recently, an almost sensational statement appeared: electric vessels plying the Moskva River will be able to work independently, without captains on board. Ambitious plans include the transfer of vessels completely to automatic control, with remote control. In the production of this type of transport, a system has been laid down that allows them to become completely unmanned in the future. But this is still a long-term project.
New river trams were built in the Northern Capital at the Emporium shipyard. The maximum length is 21 meters, the overall width is more than 6 meters, and the height of the freeboard is 1 meter 29 cm. The displacement of the vessel is 40 tons. The watercraft can reach a cruising speed of up to 18.5 km/h
There are only two people in the crew of the river electric tram, and the number of passengers can reach eighty.
It should be mentioned that the key components and assemblies of the vessel, including the engine, are Russian-made.
The equipment controlling and controlling the power system and electric drives, including the rotation speed of the electric motor, the parameters of the batteries, the functioning of other power units of the electric tramway, is based on microcontrollers developed at the Research Institute of Electronic Technology.
Voronezh engineers have created a universal microcontroller with advanced capabilities for controlling various drives and actuators. Such a combination of functionality and characteristics IP allows us to successfully apply the Russian development in many areas: in management, measuring instruments, communications, surveillance, security, production automation, medical technology, energy. The microcontroller is in demand among customers not only in our country. Many foreign partners are interested in using products produced by JSC “NIIET”.
In addition, currently in Voronezh is successfully implementing the project “Development and mass production of a series of 32-bit microcontrollers” using a subsidy program in accordance with the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1252 dated July 24, 2021.
We are talking about four microcontrollers based on the RISC-V open architecture designed for the civilian industry.
The most powerful microcontroller is a dual—core 32‑bit, with built-in flash memory of 4 MB programs. Scope of application — automated process control equipment, industrial and automotive electronics. But thanks to the wide functionality, the microcontroller can be successfully used in many other areas.
The second product is designed for use in automated control systems and electric motor control. This system on a chip with a software flash memory of 1 MB or more will receive a number of blocks that are especially useful in engine control tasks.
The third type of microcontrollers will be indispensable where there is no need for a large number of functions, but there are limitations in terms of size. These can be portable devices. Although the functionality of this single-core microcontroller is not as wide as that of the previous two models, it will provide developers with a fairly large set of interfaces and functional blocks to solve most tasks.
The last representative of this line is designed to build IoT systems based on it. This single‑core 32-bit microcontroller with a small number of pins will receive support for receiving and transmitting data (Rx/Tx) over the RF interface.
In addition, JSC “NIIET” is creating a series of high-power microwave LDMOS transistors optimized for working with DVB‑T / DVB‑T2 standards television signal. These inventions have no analogues in our country.
There is no doubt that these developments will be in demand for the implementation of transport, telecommunications, construction, manufacturing, and other projects both in our country and abroad.
A source: https://e-cis.info/news/569/111217/
