A GIS ROBOTICS (SLAM) PLATFORM FOR LAND MINE DETECTION AND MAPPING

Abstract

Landmines clearance have always remained a crucial task in peace support operations. In Pakistan that is going through tough peace conflicts, this task has gained importance to save the lives of the military personnel as well as general civilian who might get injured or even die because of these uncleared mines. Currently techniques being used for efficient detection and removal of mines are based on the use of UAVs that search the complete area for detection of mines and then either mark them or detonate them. With the diffusion of geospatial technologies with the existing infrastructure, the induction of geographical information is ever increasing. To overcome the discrepancies in the existing systems such a solution is required that is able to detect the mines and map them accurately in real time so as to save time and also is cost efficient. This project aims at providing an infrastructure that incorporates geospatial technologies in land mines detection procedure. This project suggests an alternative technique to replace the primitive methods of mine detection i.e. instead of traversing the complete contaminated area as was done in conventional methods, the rover, as suggested, is capable of finding the spatial pattern among the mines and then deciphering the pattern and move only to mine positions of higher probability, hence confirming the pattern while moving autonomously in the field avoiding the obstructions in its path. Moreover the project aims at increasing the efficiency of mine detection and mapping by keeping a check on the physical parameters of the mine detector.