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Preliminary Design and Feasibility Study of a 6-Degree of Freedom Robot for Excavation of Unexploded Landmine

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At present, the Sensing and Access Control R&D for Humanitarian Mine Action project has been carrying out by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). Chiba University’s group join to this project. Our effort is to develop a small vehicle for mine detection and clearance. Specifically we are concerned with the development of a 6 degree-of-freedom robot arm for exposing buried anti-personnel mines, with plans of field-testing in Afghanistan in 2005. This paper describes the current state of development in the anti-personnel mine exposure and clearance system, focusing on the robot arm.

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  1. Department of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, Chiba University, Japan

    K. Nonami, R. Yuasa, D. Waterman & S. Amano

  2. Technical Research Center, Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd., Japan

    H. Ono

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Nonami, K., Yuasa, R., Waterman, D. et al. Preliminary Design and Feasibility Study of a 6-Degree of Freedom Robot for Excavation of Unexploded Landmine. Auton Robot 18, 293–302 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-005-6841-x

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