Providing Energy Weapons for a Marine Unmanned Multi-purpose Platform with Catamaran and Trimaran Type Hull

This article deals with the issue of ensuring the energy armament of a marine unmanned multipurpose platform with the types of hull “catamaran” and “trimaran”, through the introduction of autonomous photovoltaic stations. The article calculates the amount of electrical energy generated by solar panels throughout the year, in the case of autonomous movement of a marine robot. In the article, special attention is paid to the calculations of the parameters of the motion of the marine robot while charging its batteries. Based on the analysis of the location of the panels in relation to the Sun due to the rotation of the robot during daylight hours, the values of the received energy are calculated. After that, the energy costs for ensuring such movement of the robot are calculated. As a result of calculations in the first approximation, it is shown that the strategy of turning the vertical panels on the sail-wing of the robot towards the Sun is energetically justified. At the same time, it is possible to implement two strategies for turning behind the sun: continuous rotation to maintain the zero angle between direct sunlight and the normal to the panels and discrete turns. Infrequent adjustments lead to a significant reduction in the amount of energy generated. At the same time, continuous rotation consumes the mechanical resource of electric motors more. The conducted research is an urgent task, however, it requires additions in terms of accounting for light scattering, shadows, and wind exposure. The data for these calculations will be obtained in the course of further experiments.