A New Approach to Humanitarian Demining

Humanitarian demining is an application in which the use of tele-operated machines and mechanisms has been gaining acceptance recently. Actually, demining is just one among many other field applications that require a high degree of mobility, manipulation of loads, robustness and, above all, high ef...

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Published inAutonomous robots Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 323 - 336
Main Authors Debenest, Paulo, Fukushima, Edwardo F, Tojo, Yuki, Hirose, Shigeo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Nature B.V 01.05.2005
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Energy consumption
Land mines
Studies
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Summary:Humanitarian demining is an application in which the use of tele-operated machines and mechanisms has been gaining acceptance recently. Actually, demining is just one among many other field applications that require a high degree of mobility, manipulation of loads, robustness and, above all, high efficiency in terms of energy consumption. This paper will present the development and analysis of Field Arm, a pantographic manipulator especially designed for field works, focusing on its kinematic, static and dynamic properties. The novel features of Field Arm will be presented and discussed with results of simulations and experiments.
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ISSN:0929-5593
1573-7527
DOI:10.1007/s10514-005-6843-8