Humanitarian demining and robotics

Author

Baudoin, Yvan ; Colon, E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. Mech., R. Mil. Acad., Brussels, Belgium

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

1-4 Sep 1998

Firstpage

433

Abstract

Antipersonnel mines are a pestilence and need to be dealt with as quickly as possible. Unfortunately the techniques that are being used have hardly changed since the Second World War. Many people throughout the world are working to improve or perfect new mine-detectors. Some are also endeavouring to develop mechanical solutions to increase efficiency of detection. In particular, this is the aim of the Robotics Laboratory of the Belgian project HUDEM. Our objective is to develop remote-controlled mobile platforms capable of carrying mine-detectors. We first review the essential features these vehicles have to possess, then explain the choice that have been made, and finally present various ongoing developments

Keywords

buried object detection; image sensors; mobile robots; remotely operated vehicles; robot vision; telerobotics; antipersonnel mines; humanitarian demining; mine-detectors; remote-controlled mobile platforms; Detectors; Image sensors; Leg; Legged locomotion; Mobile robots; Propulsion; Radar tracking; Robot sensing systems; Robotics and automation; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control Applications, 1998. Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Trieste

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4104-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCA.1998.728483

Filename

728483