Mines and human casualties, a robotics approach toward mine clearing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5608, Issue , 2004, Pages 306-312

  Ghaffari, Masoud ^a   Manthena, Dinesh ^a   Ghaffari, Alireza ^b   Hall, Ernest L ^a  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^b Center for Orthosis and Prosthesis   (Iran)

Author keywords

Mine clearing; Robotics; Survey robot

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EXPLOSIVES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; STOCKPILE SURVEYS;

ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES; LAND MINES; MINE CLEARING; SURVEY ROBOT;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 17644365432     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.571260     Document Type: Conference Paper

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