Development of Wireless Magnetoresistive Sensor Network for UXO and Landmine Detection

Author

Li, Houmin ; Branscomb, David ; Hamilton, Joshua ; Baginski, Michael ; Riggs, Lloyd ; Thomas, Gwynedd

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. & Electron., Beijing Inst. of Technol., Beijing, China

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

This paper summarizes the development of a wireless magnetoresistive (MR) sensor array for unexploded ordnance (UXO) detection realized with wireless sensor network (WSN) technology. In recent years, the rapid development and research on WSN has enabled the application of such technology in a variety of areas¿DThis paper discusses the WSN implementation in a UXO and landmine detection system. The overall system design, hardware design, and network design for large area field survey for a passive UXO detection is discussed. The manufactured wireless MR sensor node prototype is extremely compact, lightweight and portable. It also demonstrated excellent overall system performance in house testing. A pilot production of the sensor nodes is proposed for large scale field testing to further verify the effectiveness of the wireless MR sensor array for UXO and landmine detection.

Keywords

landmine detection; magnetoresistive devices; wireless sensor networks; MR sensor array; UXO detection; WSN; hardware design; landmine detection; pilot production; unexploded ordnance detection; wireless magnetoresistive sensor network; Arrays; Landmine detection; Magnetometers; Robot sensing systems; Silicon; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2011 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

ISSN

2161-9646

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6250-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/wicom.2011.6040382

Filename

6040382