Humanitarian demining: Efficiency by intelligent planning and low- cost robotics

Abstract

The robot mine clearing, based on cheap and widespread farming contrivances, provides considerably unusual prospects, which aim at enhancing safety, reliability and efficiency, to transform the terrorist anti-personnel mine into almost useless practice. The talk develops along the following lines: • to conceive and implement low-cost robotic equipment, assuring effective, safe and reliable demining: the resources (facilities, functions, fixtures) choice lets devising worthy strategies; • to help out equipment integration, with resort to cheap and widely available (agricultural) fixtures: the on-process adaptive workcycles lead to better tactical concert; • to provide the modelling and simulation background for the on-duty assessment and training assistance: the alarm (warning, emergency) management brings to efficiency and safety; • to make easier the operators groundwork, involved in self-learning and up-grading duties: the mixed-mode automation grants balanced resources use on the strategic, tactical and execution horizons.