Airborne-based Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) systems have proved to be an efficient solution for safe and accurate detection of buried threats such as Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) anti-personnel anti-tank landmines. The design these prototypes is influenced by several parameters the working frequency band or maximum weight size payload placed on board Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). In t...

Detection of landmines using nuclear techniques has been studied extensively since the late 1940s. Nuclear techniques look at either a return radiation, which is characteristic of explosive components that are infrequently found in soil (e.g., nitrogen or carbon), or an intensity change of a noncharacteristic scattered radiation, which is a function of a parameter that differs between soil and ...

This paper presents a robotic platform of cost-effective GPS-aided autonomous guided vehicle (AGV) for global path planning. The is made mechanical radio controlled (RC) rover and an Arduino Uno microcontroller. An installed magnetic digital compass helps determine the right direction RC by continuously synchronising heading bearing vehicle. To ensure effective monitoring vehicle’s position as ...

ISSN 2277 – 503X | © 2013 Bonfring Abstract--Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a nondestructive technique used for the location of objects or interfaces buried beneath the earth’s surface or located within a visually opaque structure. This research work proposes techniques for buried object discrimination for the images generated by GPR by using GPR frequency-domain spectral features. The motiv...

We assessed depression, anxiety and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in 137 cases of landmine injury in Ilam province, using the Hospital Anxiety & Depression Scale (HADS) and the Short Form Health Survey (SF36) questionnaires. We also compared their scores with an uninjured control group (n = 360). Most of the injured were male (93.4%) and illiterate (54.7%) with some irreversible sequel...

The demand for mobile robots for hazardous field tasks, such as rescue operations in disaster scenes or landmine detection and removal has been increasing in recent years. Since electrical infrastructure is seldom available in such situations, robots that rely on chemical batteries or/and tethered connections to external electric generators suffer severe limitations in operation time and mobili...