News – Russian Government

As part of events dedicated to the 220th anniversary of the Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko and Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov visited the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Systems Engineering (IIRSI) – one of the youngest and most technologically advanced departments of the university .

Dmitry Chernyshenko and Valery Falkov talked with students and young scientists of KFU and discussed with them support measures for the development of research work, the Congress of Young Scientists – one of the events of the Decade of Science and Technology announced by President Vladimir Putin, as well as the participation of children in volunteer activities.

In particular, during the meeting, one of the participants, resident Ammar Safauldiin Hussein, who came to study at KFU from Iraq, spoke about his experience of working as a medical volunteer in clinics and in fighting fires. During the meeting, the Deputy Prime Minister agreed that the student and other volunteers would research students’ motivation for volunteering and present their vision.

“For the Government, youth policy is a priority. This year we adopted a strategy that was prepared together with you; a national project “Youth and Children” is being prepared. At the meeting, it was important to get feedback, to understand what competitions young people participate in, and how participation in movements helps them become professionals. I congratulate the students on the 220th anniversary of KFU, I wish them further development, bringing as much benefit as possible to their Motherland and beloved Tatarstan,” noted Dmitry Chernyshenko.

During the inspection, employees of the institute said that it trains highly qualified specialists in the areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive systems, intelligent transport systems, and robotics.

In the new laboratory building of the IRSI, the delegations were presented with a robotic constructor for underwater work “Nerpa”, which allows for visual inspection of vehicles and structures under water, regardless of the time of year and time of day, as well as the Homo Meliorus lidar-sonar vision system for blind and visually impaired people , which will allow you to determine the distance to surrounding objects, recognize them, and help you read.

The institute has a Student Design Bureau. Among his developments is a system for medical outpatient and industrial personnel monitoring. This is software that allows you to monitor industrial safety and determine the health status of enterprise employees.

The neuromarketing laboratory is equipped with 11 workstations. The research conducted here helps predict consumer reactions to a product before it is released to the market.

At the Center for Intelligent Manufacturing and Additive Technologies, guests were shown the Denver system, designed for remote and automatic control of tractor equipment.

In the educational process at the institute, with the support of industrial partners, digital twins are actively used, thanks to which students gain access to technological processes occurring in production. This makes it possible to speed up the training of specialists as much as possible and improve its quality.

The flagship projects of the Ministry of Education and Science – the federal project “Platform of University Technological Entrepreneurship”, programs for the development of advanced engineering schools and “Priority 2030” – play a major role in the implementation of research and engineering ideas.

During the implementation of the last two programs, the university attracted about 5.5 billion rubles from industrial partners for joint developments to solve problems to ensure Russia’s technological leadership.

“Participation in the Priority 2030 and NSP programs allowed the university to significantly strengthen the university’s contribution to the socio-economic development of the Republic of Tatarstan and the entire country as a whole, strengthen the technological component, form a block of new breakthrough projects that ensure import substitution and import advance in key sectors of the national economy, and also determine effective areas for training highly qualified engineering personnel for the real sector of the economy,” emphasized KFU Rector Lenar Safin.