Volgograd State Technical University, Russian Federation

Volgograd State Technical University is a Flagship University of Volgograd Region. The University consists of 7 faculties, 3 affiliates, 1 institute, 1 technopark, , 3 representative offices, postgraduate and doctoral training programmes, departments that carry out educational, scientific, research, or creative activity, structural divisions of further vocational education, extra-curricular and pedagogical work, preparatory courses, a scientific and technical library, a publishing office, editorial offices of journals and mass-circulation newspaper, other training, scientific, information analysis units, as well as divisions involved in methodological, financial and economic, production activities. Strategic objective of VSTU in the field of information technology is to develop effectively operating research, educational and management infomedium. This objective is being achieved by the following main activities: creating a modern communication infrastructure of the university; an active introduction of new information technologies into academic activities of the University; improving the efficiency of the University management based on information technologies.

There’s a Ph.D. program with a specialization in “Robots, machatronics and robotic systems”. A number of projects, including those aimed at agricultural engineering robot automation are being realized. Full-scale experimental models, such as walking trucks for sprinkling machine “Kuban”, walking robotic systems “Vosminog” and “Vosminog M”, walking robot “Ortonog” have been designed, built and analysed.