Design and Implementation of Landmine Robot

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to design a robot which is capable of detecting buried landmines and marking their locations, while enabling the operator to control the robot wirelessly from a distance. The ideas and concepts from the theoretical stages are shaped into the physical hardware components by fabrication of a prototype and then software programs are integrated into the system so as to test and experiment the concepts that had been developed. The designed robot is capable of detecting a buried mine, marking the exact location of the buried mine, and controlling itself from stepping over it and detonating the mine. The detection of the buried mine is done by using metal detectors since most land mines contain metal components. The marking of the location of the possible buried mine area will be done by spraying distinctive color paint onto that location