An integrated robotic system for antipersonnel mines detection

Abstract The terrible antipersonnel landmines plague represents a real challenge for the robotics community. The Royal Military Academy of Belgium intends to provide its contribution for solving this problem. The Belgian Hudem project involves different workgroups each focusing on different aspects: data fusion, sensor development and sensor positioning. The Robotics Workgroup develops semi-autonomous mobile systems which carry mine detection sensors. Mechanical, control and location aspects are considered in the different projects. We present in this paper the control and the communication architecture of our robotics detection systems.