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Hybrid deliberative/reactive control of a scanning system for landmine detection

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dc.creator García Armada, Elena
dc.creator González de Santos, Pablo
dc.date 2008-02-08T17:05:59Z
dc.date 2008-02-08T17:05:59Z
dc.date 2007-06-30
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T01:00:04Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T01:00:04Z
dc.identifier Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 55, pp. 490-497, 2007.
dc.identifier 0921-8890
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/2901
dc.identifier 10.1016/j.robot.2006.12.001
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/2901
dc.description Antipersonnel mines infest fields all over the world. According to recent estimates, landmines are killing and maiming more than 2000 innocent civilians per month. The problem of landmine detection and removal requires the cooperation of a number of engineering fields, which in turn poses a need for new technologies, such as improved sensors, efficient manipulators and mobile robots. This paper describes the configuration and control architecture of a scanning manipulator for detecting antipersonnel landmines. The scanning system is part of a demining system based on a walking robot that acts as the carrier for the scanning manipulator. Broadly speaking, the scanning system consists of a sensor head that can detect certain kinds of landmines and, to move the sensor head over large areas, a manipulator that has been appropriately sensorized to scan irregular terrains in the presence of obstacles. The proposed control architecture is of the hybrid deliberative/reactive type: A deliberative controller defines a sweep trajectory that furnishes complete coverage of the infested area, while two reactive controllers are involved in on-line adaptation to the environment. Experiments show good performance of the whole system.
dc.description This work has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science through Grants DPI2001-1595 and DPI2004-05824. The first author is supported by a postdoctoral CSIC-I3P contract granted by the European Social Fund.
dc.description Peer reviewed
dc.format 22195 bytes
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2006.12.001
dc.rights openAccess
dc.subject Landmine detection
dc.subject Robotics
dc.subject Robot manipulator
dc.subject Deliberative/reactive hybrid control
dc.title Hybrid deliberative/reactive control of a scanning system for landmine detection
dc.type Artículo


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