Research – CCS, Admiral Makarov NUOS

Research & development

The department's developments are deployed at the Institute of Pulse Processes of the NAS of Ukraine and are ready for use at shipbuilding and ship-repair plants. Two scientific schools, patents and publications indexed in Scopus and Web of Science.

Flagship developments Publications

3 flagship developments
9 Ukrainian patents (2018–2025)
21 selected publications
15+ papers in Scopus & Web of Science

Flagship developments

Three flagship projects

What we build in the department's laboratories. All are at the final stage of readiness; some are already deployed in industry.

Research work in the department's laboratory

Power converters

Frequency converter based on a resonant inverter with time-pulse control

Authors: H. Pavlov, I. Vinnychenko, M. Pokrovskyi

A frequency converter for the secondary power supply of onboard-network consumers that are sensitive to non-sinusoidal input voltage on autonomous moving and local objects – to improve the reliability and the energy and economic efficiency of the device.

Patents: 1 utility-model patent + 1 application
Field of application: Vessels of various purposes
Readiness: Final stage of development
Deployed at: Institute of Pulse Processes, NAS of Ukraine (Mykolaiv)

Main research tasks

The work addresses the choice of the converter's structure, the development of a pulse control law that yields a sinusoidal output voltage under a variable load, a methodology for calculating the circuit elements, mathematical and simulation modelling, and the manufacture and study of an experimental prototype.

Comparison with global analogues

The expected results are significant at a global level. The proposed control method substantially reduces the dynamic losses of the power switching elements, raising the device's efficiency. The resonant inverter lowers generated electromagnetic interference, and the power-factor corrector ensures electromagnetic compatibility with the grid. The developed methodology for the storage elements makes it possible to design any converter with a series resonant link and an output low-frequency LC filter.

Economic appeal

Thanks to the proposed control method and the resonant principle, this high-efficiency converter costs less than switching analogues of the same power, because it needs a cheaper component base in the absence of overvoltage on the switching elements. Its small size and weight suit mobile autonomous objects with limited payload.

Robotics · IoT · AI

Computerized system for monitoring and automatic control of a multi-purpose mobile robot (MPMR)

Authors: O. Kozlov, O. Herasin, A. Topalov

Development and study of a computerized system for monitoring and automatic control of a multi-purpose mobile robot, to improve the reliability and the energy and economic efficiency of movement and technological operations on inclined and vertical ferromagnetic surfaces.

Patents: 2 Ukrainian utility-model patents
Field of application: Shipbuilding and ship-repair yards, ports, elevators, oil depots
Readiness: Final stage
Economic effect: Replacing teams of workers with 1–2 operators

What is already done

A branched functional structure and mathematical and simulation models using intelligent technologies have been developed. Control algorithms, optimised intelligent control devices, an experimental prototype, an advanced human–machine interface and reliable hardware-and-software implementation are planned next.

Comparison with global analogues

The branched functional structure, adequate mathematical and simulation models, optimised intelligent control devices and algorithms, reliable hardware-and-software tools and the experimental prototype show signs of scientific novelty. The results match the best in the world in automating service technological operations.

Economic appeal

Replacing teams of workers with one or two operators controlling a group of robots will cut payroll and social-security costs several times over, as well as the time spent erecting scaffolding for work at height – while increasing the available working time for the robots.

Deployment results

A single robot with the developed control system can replace workers for cleaning, welding or coating operations. The economic effect significantly exceeds the project's funding. Individual results have been deployed and published in leading scientific journals.

Electric drive · Energy efficiency

Energy-efficient controlled electromagnetic drive for vibration equipment

Authors: O. Cherno, A. Topalov, S. Robotko, A. Ivanov, A. Kozlov

Automatic control of the frequency and amplitude of vibration devices with an electromagnetic drive to ensure maximum efficiency.

Efficiency: ≈ 90% vs 30–40% in analogues
Field of application: Agriculture, machine building, construction (concrete)
Service life: 10+ years (centrifugal – 200 hours)
Economic effect: ≈ $2,000 / year per 1 kW

Areas of application

In agriculture and machine building, the electromagnetic drive is used on vibration equipment for metered feeding, cleaning, calibration and other operations with bulk material – wherever smooth amplitude control is required. Most drives are controlled by amplitude only and run in a pre-resonant mode with an efficiency of about 30–40%.

Why it is more efficient

The developed drives, controlled by both amplitude and frequency, maintain a stable resonant mode with an efficiency of about 90%. This saves around $100 per year per 1 kW of power.

Construction

In construction, vibration is used to compact concrete mixes when forming reinforced-concrete slabs and tiles. To meet European-standard quality, higher-frequency vibration (80–100 Hz) is used. Centrifugal electric vibrators at that frequency last only 200 hours – about 10 replacements a year. The electromagnetic drive lasts 10+ years with 10–20% higher efficiency.

Total economic effect

Replacing centrifugal vibration drives with controlled electromagnetic ones gives an expected annual economic effect of about $2,000 per 1 kW of equipment power.

Intellectual property

Utility-model patents

9 Ukrainian patents granted and filed in 2018–2025.

№ 122417

Method for automatic liquid-level monitoring with discrete self-testing distributed over the tank height and measurement-error compensation

Yu. Kondratenko, O. Kozlov, H. Kondratenko, O. Korobko, A. Topalov, O. Herasin

publ. 10.01.2018
№ 123630

System for automatic liquid-level monitoring with discrete self-testing distributed over the tank height

Yu. Kondratenko, O. Kozlov, O. Korobko

publ. 12.03.2018
№ 125523

Drive wheel of a mobile robot

Yu. Kondratenko, Yu. Zaporozhets, O. Herasin, H. Kondratenko

publ. 10.05.2018
№ 126444

Method for the magnetically controlled movement of a mobile robot

Yu. Kondratenko, Yu. Zaporozhets, O. Herasin, M. Taranov

publ. 25.06.2018
№ 160411

Device for measuring and monitoring coating thickness in a vacuum chamber

M. Trostynskyi, O. Herasin, A. Karpechenko, A. Topalov, M. Bobrov, O. Povorozniuk, H. Uholnikov

publ. 10.09.2025
№ 150323

Method for the thermo-gas-dynamic calculation of a centrifugal compressor

S. Ryzhkov, B. Nengjun, Ya. Xiaolin, A. Topalov, O. Herasin

publ. 02.02.2022
№ 150412

Information-and-computation system for designing a centrifugal compressor

S. Ryzhkov, B. Nengjun, Ya. Xiaolin, A. Topalov, O. Herasin, O. Kozlov

publ. 16.02.2022
№ 148607

Method for depositing a composite electric-arc coating

A. Karpechenko, M. Bobrov, O. Herasin, Yu. Halynkin, S. Slobodian, M. Mykhailov, O. Labartkava

publ. 25.08.2021
№ 157368

Device for measuring the thickness of a conductive metal film during vacuum deposition

M. Trostynskyi, A. Topalov, A. Karpechenko, O. Herasin, M. Bobrov, S. Robotko, V. Khoda, A. Nedo

publ. 09.10.2024

Publications

Selected publications – 2018–2025

A selection of the team's works. Tags indicate indexing.

2025

Kinematics calculation and operation modelling of a suspended manipulator-robot winch

Uholnikov H., Herasin O. – Methods and Devices of Quality Control, No. 1(54), pp. 101–108.
Professional journal
2025

Information-and-computing complex for modelling the kinematics of a manipulator robot

Melnykova O., Herasin O. – Proc. Int. Conf. 'Information Technologies in Metallurgy and Machine Building', Dnipro, pp. 324–329.
Conference proceedings
2024

Calculation of the control characteristics of resonant converters by the superposition method

Pavlov H., Obrubov A., Vinnychenko I., Makhnov A. – Technical Electrodynamics, (4), pp. 24–33.
Scopus
2024

Dynamic model of a resonant converter for disturbances from the supply side

Pavlov H., Obrubov A., Vinnychenko I. – Technical Electrodynamics, (2), pp. 42–51.
Scopus
2024

Frequency regulation of output current in high-voltage transformerless resonant chargers

Vinnychenko D., Nazarova N., Vinnychenko I. – Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies, 1(5/127), pp. 6–15.
2023

Polyol synthesis of nanoparticles for magnetic nanofluids

Voinash V., Perekos A., Kabantsev T., Danko N., Vinnychenko I., Rud O. – Nanosystems, Nanomaterials, Nanotechnologies, vol. 21, iss. 4, pp. 757–768.
Scopus
2023

Effect of the resonant-circuit frequency on the power of a three-phase high-voltage resonant charger

Vinnychenko D., Nazarova N., Vinnychenko I. – Shipbuilding and Marine Infrastructure, No. 1(17), pp. 4–12.
Index Copernicus
2023

Study of the characteristics of a high-voltage transformerless resonant charger

Vinnychenko D., Nazarova N., Vinnychenko I. – Technical Electrodynamics, No. 2, pp. 21–27.
Scopus
2023

Energy characteristics of the electromagnetic vibration drive with pulse power supply of vibrator coils

Cherno O., Hurov A., Ivanov A. – Technical Electrodynamics, No. 2, pp. 53–60.
2023

Modeling of a controlled electromagnetic vibration drive with a variable resonant frequency

Cherno O., Kozlov A. – Technical Electrodynamics, No. 4, pp. 62–71.

Show earlier works (2018–2022)

2022

The current state and prospects of the use of distance-learning instruments during the study of ship engineering

Zhukov Yu., Haidai H., Kudin O. – Information Technologies and Learning Tools, Vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 151–165.
Web of Science
2021

Research of the processes in a resonant flyback converter for contactless battery charging

Pavlov H., Vinnychenko I., Vinnychenko D. – Shipbuilding and Marine Infrastructure, No. 1(15), pp. 36–44.
Index Copernicus
2021

Simulation of mobile-robot clamping magnets by the circle-field method

Cherno O., Gerasin O., Topalov A., Stakanov D., Hurov A., Vyzhol Yu. – Technical Electrodynamics, No. 3, pp. 58–64.
2021

Neurocontroller for vibrodrive control of adaptive vibration technological machines

Chubyk R., Zelinsky I., Cherno O. – IEEE 2nd KhPI Week on Advanced Technology, pp. 278–282.
2020

Energy parameters of the serial-to-serial resonant converter with pulse-number control for wireless power transfer

Pavlov H., Pokrovskyi M., Vinnychenko I., Vinnychenko D., Zhuk I. – IEEE 4th Int. Conf. on IEPS, Istanbul, pp. 296–300.
Scopus
2020

The influence of the characteristics of the resonant power source on the productivity of electric-discharge installations

Vinnychenko D., Vinnychenko I., Nazarova N. – IEEE 40th ELNANO, Kyiv, pp. 767–770.
Scopus
2018

Modeling of clamping magnets' interaction with a ferromagnetic surface for wheeled mobile robots

Kondratenko Y., Zaporozhets Y., Rudolph J., Gerasin O., Topalov A., Kozlov O. – International Journal of Computing, Vol. 17, Issue 1, pp. 33–46.
Scopus
2018

Complex industrial systems automation based on the Internet of Things implementation

Kondratenko Y., Kozlov O., Korobko O., Topalov A. – ICTERI 2017, CCIS, vol. 826, Springer, pp. 164–187.
Scopus
2018

Computerized intelligent system for remote diagnostics of level sensors in floating-dock ballast complexes

Topalov A., Kondratenko Y., Kozlov O. – ICTERI 2018, CEUR-WS, Vol-2105, pp. 94–108.
Scopus
2018

Fuzzy controllers for increasing the efficiency of a floating dock's operations

Kondratenko Y., Kozlov O., Topalov A. – Control Systems: Theory and Applications, River Publishers, pp. 197–232.
Web of Science
2018

Adaptive control system for a frequency converter based on a resonant inverter

Pavlov H., Vinnychenko I., Pokrovskyi M. – Technical Electrodynamics, No. 5, pp. 39–43.
Scopus

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