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Smelcom Robotics
Training simulator

First dive shouldn't be the first time at the controls

The operator learns on shore: the same controls, the same interface, the same conditions. They come to the real vehicle with practised skills, not with a manual in hand.

Try it

Pilot the vehicle right in your browser

We grant demo access on request: log in from any computer and try it. Keyboard control, nothing to install.

Why the market needs it

Vehicles arrive faster than operators

ROV operator training in Russia is only taking shape. A handful of centres run dedicated courses - including to the recommendations of the international IMCA association - and universities are deploying their own simulators. Meanwhile operators' fleets keep growing, and people must be trained faster than practice on real hardware allows.

Practice without risk

A mistake in the simulator costs a scenario restart, not a repair and a lost day on site.

The same interface

The trainee learns on a copy of the real control station, so moving to the vehicle needs no relearning.

Hard conditions on demand

Current, turbidity, confined spaces - scenarios you might not meet for months in real work.

How it looks

Interface and scenarios

The same interface as on the real control station: compass, depth, pressure, temperature, voltage, control of lights, thrust and camera. Realistic underwater scenes - a vessel, hull, propeller-rudder group and structures.

Why

The vehicle costs more than the mistake

A tangled tether, a hit against a structure, a vehicle lost in the current. On the simulator, a mistake costs a scenario restart.

A dive costs time

Travel, deployment, the dive itself - hours. On the simulator, an operator runs a dozen scenarios in the same time.

Conditions can be set on demand

Zero visibility, current, night, a thruster failure. In the field you wait for these conditions - here you switch them on.

Scenarios

What the operator practises

Quay wallRun along the sheet pile, find and record defects
Bridge pierSpiral around the pier, capture a full survey
Ship hullInspect the plating and the propeller-rudder group
Water intakeInspect the fish-protection device and screens
Zero visibilityWorking by sonar
Thruster failureAbort the dive and recover the vehicle
Who it's for

Universities and training centres

Classroom fit-out: workstations, a continuing-education programme, teaching materials, scenarios with pass criteria. Russian-made software.

Operating companies

Train your own operators on site. Keep skills sharp between field trips without spending the vehicle's service life.

The interactive simulator is available in your personal account - after logging in you can explore the interface and pilot the underwater vehicle.