Two Sustainable and Compliant Robots for Humanitarian Demining

This article, presents two robots developed by IntRoSys, S. A.. Poseidon, is a walking robot capable of scanning a large area encompassed by itself with a set of landmine detection sensors. The 3 by 3 m free area encompassed by the structure, plus the wide and accurate mobility of the payload sensors, makes this solution a remarkably useful tool for accurate sensor fusion and consequently for demining, being ideal for open fields. Ares, is a high manoeuvrability, low-cost, and lightweight wheeled robot, suitable for all-terrain environments. Ares carries small and low-cost landmine detection sensors, being targeted for area reduction. The control systems developed for each robot are overviewed. An all-terrain reactive navigation method is revisited for the Ares robot. Some methods for legged robot control systems are discussed and analysed in terms of their applicability in the Poseidon robot.