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Abstract | ||
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Purpose - Humanitarian de-mining tasks require the use of specific detecting sets to detect landmines. These sets are normally based on a one-point sensor, which must be moved over the infested terrain by a combination of a scanning manipulator and a mobile platform. The purpose of this paper is to present the development of the sensor head and the scanning manipulator.Design/methodology/approach - The manipulator needs sensors in order to negotiate ground irregularities and detect obstacles in the path of the mine-detecting set. All of the sensors must be integrated into a sensor head that is in charge of both detecting land mines and providing overall sensor functions for the mobile platform's steering controller.Findings - The sensor head is based on a commercial mine-detecting set and a ground-tracking set based on a network of range sensors tailor-made for this purpose; the scanning manipulator is based on a mechanism with five degrees of freedom.Originality/value - The design assessment and some experiments are reported. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2008 | 10.1108/01439910810854629 | INDUSTRIAL ROBOT-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH AND APPLICATION |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
explosives technology, sensors, control systems, tracking, robotics | Obstacle,Simulation,Sensor array,Terrain,Manipulator,Artificial intelligence,Demining,Engineering,Control system,Robotics,Mobile manipulator | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
35 | 2 | 0143-991X |
Citations | PageRank | References |
4 | 0.58 | 3 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| R. Ponticelli | 1 | 26 | 2.52 |
| E. Garcia | 2 | 252 | 23.55 |
| P. Gonzalez de Santos | 3 | 153 | 16.90 |
| M. Armada | 4 | 4 | 0.58 |