<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Mechanical systems or robots to assist landmine detection are expected to greatly improve quality of humanitarian demining tasks. These new systems could provide: i) safer operation; ii) advanced methods for automatic target recognition and discrimination; iii) consistent performance with less influence of “human-factors”; iv) better detection performance, i.e., higher probability of detection (POD) and lower false alarm rate (FAR); among others. However, despite many research/development efforts around the world, no practical landmine detection robot has yet achieved maturity for practical use. Nonetheless, the humanitarian demining robot Gryphon, which current status of development is described in detail, is close to meet the requirements for practical use. This paper analyses the results from latest on-site tests underwent by Gryphon in Croatia (2006, 2007) and Cambodia (2006), to make a critical and objective evaluation of its validity, and clarify the points that still require further development in order to realize a practical humanitarian demining robot</p></abstract>

Mechanical systems or robots to assist landmine detection are expected to greatly improve quality of humanitarian demining tasks. These new systems could provide: i) safer operation; ii) advanced methods for automatic target recognition and discrimination; iii) consistent performance with less influence of “human-factors”; iv) better detection performance, i.e., higher probability of detection (POD) and lower false alarm rate (FAR); among others. However, despite many research/development efforts around the world, no practical landmine detection robot has yet achieved maturity for practical use. Nonetheless, the humanitarian demining robot Gryphon, which current status of development is described in detail, is close to meet the requirements for practical use. This paper analyses the results from latest on-site tests underwent by Gryphon in Croatia (2006, 2007) and Cambodia (2006), to make a critical and objective evaluation of its validity, and clarify the points that still require further development in order to realize a practical humanitarian demining robot

Humanitarian Demining Robot Gryphon – Current Status And An Objective Evaluation –

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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Mechanical systems or robots to assist landmine detection are expected to greatly improve quality of humanitarian demining tasks. These new systems could...

Humanitarian Demining Robot Gryphon – Current Status And An Objective Evaluation –

Published Online: Dec 13, 2017

Page range: 735 - 753

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-317

Keywords
All terrain Vehicle (ATV), buggy vehicle, robotic manipulator, metal detector (MD), ground penetrating radar (GPR), global positioning system (GPS), target discrimination

© 2008 Edwardo F. Fukushima et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Humanitarian Demining Robot Gryphon – Current Status And An Objective Evaluation –

Published Online: Dec 13, 2017

Page range: 735 - 753

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-317

KeywordsAll terrain Vehicle (ATV), buggy vehicle, robotic manipulator, metal detector (MD), ground penetrating radar (GPR), global positioning system (GPS), target discrimination

© 2008 Edwardo F. Fukushima et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
All terrain Vehicle (ATV), buggy vehicle, robotic manipulator, metal detector (MD), ground penetrating radar (GPR), global positioning system (GPS), target discrimination