AUTONOMOUS ROBOT FOR MONITORING GROUND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES

The great interest in cultural heritage reflects a person's desire to know and understandtheir origins achievements. However, archaeological sites, like the natural environment, arefinite non-renewable resources. Of all types of under threat, sites andtheir wealth information artifacts are most threatened. In current practice, options forthe preservation include reconstruction, reassembly (anastilesis), situ conservation protection, including shelter and/or tissue consolidation, ex byrelocation, reburial with or without site interpretation. her. it is very important notto move lose during excavations. If they lost moved, their informationpotential lost. order ensure constant control process research,fixing found, building three-dimensional model object studyand ensuring safety at site, an excavation monitoring system has been developed, deployed onan autonomous robot. objective this study development hardware software robot suspended platform for data collection, movement which providedby several cables fixed on supports. (both plane andin height) provided by changing length cables. Such scheme makes itpossible entire triangle formed supports, aswell as descend ascend height limited supports themselves. dataacquisition flat communication module, microcontroller abattery installed it. A gyro stabilizer attached bottom, video camera arangefinder mounted it, allows you dampen vibrations theplatform external disturbances. multi-agent algorithm operation monitoringsystem presented. program developed managing andcollecting from sites.To test system, arobot prototype was made, tested excavations complex archaeologicalmonuments Baksan region Kabardino-Balkarian Republic.