To the organization and evaluation of the effectiveness of a wireless laser communication system with underwater robotic complexes

In the modern world, the tasks of improving the quality of processing the results of environmental monitoring of the seabed require careful study of individual unconventional innovative solutions. Today, real-time studies of the state of the underwater marine environment in the Arctic region of Russia are carried out using autonomous underwater robotic systems equipped with modern automated systems for collecting and processing information from special on-board television cameras. These technologies make it possible to identify adverse environmental factors and the presence of foreign objects with the further transfer of information to the corresponding coordination center for monitoring the environmental situation of the bottom surface. At the same time, for better and more detailed analysis, it is necessary to provide video broadcasting with high resolution. Instead of hydroacoustic underwater systems that have been used for many decades, optical systems for transmitting and receiving information using a laser beam have become widely used. The reason for this transition is the extremely low transmission rate of the video data stream to surface objects, which was the beginning of the creation of open high-speed underwater communication systems with a wider bandwidth. The article discusses the problem of evaluating the effectiveness of a wireless underwater laser communication system and its organization, the functional structure of the system is given. It is proposed to use a generalized criterion for the efficiency of the system based on a change in the intensity of laser radiation, which does not take into account the "human factor" and is based solely on the natural and technical components.