Vehicles and robots for humanitarian demining

Abstract

Outlines sustainable humanitarian demining procedures and some of the breaching and post‐conflict demining equipment currently in use. Explains that several projects have proposed the use of autonomous robots to search for antipersonnel mines. However, none has solved the problem which exists on the sensor side, and it will take several years before a combination of sensors will be available and sufficiently tested in order to give full confidence that all the mines have been discovered. Describes the major problems facing humanitarian deminers, including the need for cost‐effectiveness and the difficulty of defining the precise boundaries of suspected minefields.