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The paper describes an advanced multisensor demining robot. The robot transport system is based on a simple structure using pneumatic drive elements. The robot has robust design and can carry demining equipment up to 100 kg over rough terrains. Due to the adaptive possibilities of pedipulators to obstacles, the robot can adjust the working position of the demining sensors while searching for mines. The detection block consists of a metal detector, an infrared detector, and a chemical explosive sensor. The robot is controlled by means of an on-board processor and by an operator remote station in an interactive mode. Experimental results of the transport, control, and detection systems of the robot are presented.
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Michael Yu. Rachkov is Professor of Automation at the Moscow State Industrial University. He graduated in Automatic Control Systems from Moscow Higher Technical School, 1979. He held academic posts at the Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1986 he completed his PhD in industrial robotics and received his DSc in mobile robotics in 1997. Professor Rachkov has been leading in several international projects like EUREKA and REMAPHOS. He has published over 170 papers and several books in the field of automation, robotics and optimal control. He is a member of Russian Cosmonautics Academy and International Informatization Academy.
Lino Marques is a research engineer at the Institute of Systems and Robotics of the University of Coimbra. He received the Engineering and MsC. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Science and Technology of this University in 1992 and 1997 respectively. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree and teaching in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His current research interests include sensors, mechatronics, mobile robotics and industrial automation.
Anábal T. De Almeida graduated in Electrical Engineering, University of Porto, 1972, and received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, from Imperial College, University of London, 1977. Currently he is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Coimbra, and he is the Director of the Institute of Systems and Robotics since 1993. Professor De Almeida is a consultant of the European Commission Framework Programmes. He is the co-author of five books and more than one hundred papers in international journals, meetings and conferences. He has coordinated several European and national research projects.
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Rachkov, M.Y., Marques, L. & de Almeida, A.T. Multisensor Demining Robot. Auton Robot 18, 275–291 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-005-6840-y
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