Humanitarian Demining: Efficiency by Intelligent Planning and Low-cost Robotics

The robot mine clearing, based on cheap and widespread farming contrivances, provides considerably unusual prospects, which aim at enhancing safety, reliability and efficiency, to transform the terrorist anti-personnel mine into almost useless practice. The talk develops along the following lines: • to conceive and implement low-cost robotic equipment, assuring effective, safe and reliable demining: the resources (facilities, functions, fixtures) choice lets devising worthy strategies; • to help out equipment integration, with resort to cheap and widely available (agricultural) fixtures: the on-process adaptive workcycles lead to better tactical concert; • to provide the modelling and simulation background for the on-duty assessment and training assistance: the alarm (warning, emergency) management brings to efficiency and safety; • to make easier the operators groundwork, involved in self-learning and up-grading duties: the mixed-mode automation grants balanced resources use on the strategic, tactical and execution horizons.