Humanitarian Demining Serial-Tracked Robot: Design and Dynamic Modeling
Machines, 2023 The paper proposes an original mechanical structure of a serial-tracked robot, subject of national invention patent number RO132301, B1/2021, destinated for humanitarian demining operations: anti-personnel mine detection by using a detection device ...
Silviu Mihai Petrişor +3 more
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Determination of economic losses on agricultural land in connection with hostilities on the example of the territory of Kyivska oblast in Ukraine [PDF]
Acta Scientiarum Polonorum. Formatio Circumiectus, 2023 Aim of the study: The aim of the study is a determination of economic losses on agricultural land (arable land) that have been affected by hostilities and need further measures to demine them and to make them suitable for safe food production in order ...
Shamil Ibatullin +6 more
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Antipersonnel landmines in the Colombian internal conflict: implications for technology development
Dyna, 2020 The effort of universities, companies, and the state in Colombia to face home-made AP landmines has generated useful solutions and studies for many projects developed in the last decade, including demining processes in Colombia.
Jesus Antonio Vega Uribe +2 more
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Eliminating Hidden Killers: How Can Technology Help Humanitarian Demining?
Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2019 Despite twenty-first-century technological advances by Western militaries for demining and the removal of improvised explosive devices, humanitarian demining relies mostly on mid-twentieth-century technology. While international legal efforts to curb the
A. Walter Dorn
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Design Issues and in Field Tests of the New Sustainable Tractor LOCOSTRA
Robotics, 2014 This paper presents a robotized small tractor designed to perform humanitarian demining operations and agricultural operations when demining is accomplished. This dual use makes this system unique. The focus is on the design of the machine, including the
Emanuela Elisa Cepolina +3 more
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Hexapod robot for humanitarian demining [PDF]
Assistive Robotics, 2015 28-29 January 2015. Escola Naval da Marinha Portuguesa, Lisboa (Portugal).
Montes, Héctor +5 more
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Design of a training tool for improving the use of hand-held detectors in humanitarian demining [PDF]
, 2012 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the design of a training tool intended to improve deminers' technique during close-in detection tasks.
Armada Rodríguez, Manuel Ángel +4 more
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DYLEMA: Using walking robots for landmine detection and location [PDF]
, 2005 Detection and removal of antipersonnel landmines is an important worldwide concern. A huge number of landmines has been deployed over the last twenty years, and demining will take several more decades, even if no more mines were deployed in future.
Armada, Manuel +3 more
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The sustainability of financing for the demining process in Ukraine's territory [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThe article considers the possibility of integrating demining efforts with economic recovery and sustainable development initiatives. For this purpose innovative financial models such as Outcomes-Based Financing, Outcome-Based Public-Private Partnerships
Davydenko Nadiia +4 more
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The value of statistical life and cost–benefit evaluations of landmine clearance in Cambodia [PDF]
, 2010 Development agencies spend approximately US$ 400 million per year on landmine clearance. Yet many cost–benefit evaluations suggest that landmine clearance is socially wasteful because costs appear to far outweigh social benefits.
Cameron, Michael Patrick +5 more
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