Unmanned Ariel Vehicle (UAV) Path Planning for Area Segmentation in Intelligent Landmine Detection Systems [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 Landmine contamination is a significant problem that has devastating consequences worldwide. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can play an important role in solving this problem.
Ahmed Barnawi +5 more
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Comment on the Article "A Lightweight and Low-Power UAV-Borne Ground Penetrating Radar Design for Landmine Detection" [PDF]
Sensors, 2020 This reply aims to correct some incomplete/incorrect information provided in the article "A Lightweight and Low-Power UAV-Borne Ground Penetrating Radar Design for Landmine Detection", when the authors compare their results with some state-of-the-art ...
Yuri Álvarez López +2 more
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Application of a Drone Magnetometer System to Military Mine Detection in the Demilitarized Zone [PDF]
Sensors, 2021 We propose a magnetometer system fitted on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, or drone) and a data-processing method for detecting metal antipersonnel landmines (M16) in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Korea, which is an undeveloped natural environment ...
Lee-Sun Yoo +4 more
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Design of a radio-frequency transceiver coil for landmine detection in Colombia by nuclear quadrupole resonance [PDF]
Heliyon, 2020 This paper shows the design of a radio-frequency transceiver coil for landmine detection in Colombia by nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR). The radio-frequency transceiver coil is of great importance as it is responsible for exciting the target explosive
Lorena Cardona +4 more
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Joint Fusion and Detection via Deep Learning in UAV-Borne Multispectral Sensing of Scatterable Landmine [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 Compared with traditional mine detection methods, UAV-based measures are more suitable for the rapid detection of large areas of scatterable landmines, and a multispectral fusion strategy based on a deep learning model is proposed to facilitate mine ...
Zhongze Qiu +4 more
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Detection of buried explosives with immobilized bacterial bioreporters [PDF]
Microbial Biotechnology, 2021 Summary The unchecked dispersal of antipersonnel landmines since the late 19th century has resulted in large areas contaminated with these explosive devices, creating a substantial worldwide humanitarian safety risk.
Benjamin Shemer +5 more
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Landmine Press Kinematics Measured with an Enhanced YOLOv8 Model and Mathematical Modeling [PDF]
SensorsThe landmine press is a reliable and valid test for assessing upper-body push strength. However, its application is constrained by the limitations of current mainstream monitoring technologies, such as linear position transducers (LPTs).
Rui Zhao +8 more
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Optimizing Detection Reliability in Safety-Critical Computer Vision: Transfer Learning and Hyperparameter Tuning with Multi-Task Learning [PDF]
SensorsThis paper presents a methodological framework for selectively optimizing computer vision models for safety-critical applications. Through systematic processes of hyperparameter tuning alongside multitask learning, we attempt to create a highly ...
Waun Broderick, Sabine McConnell
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Contribution of 3-D electrical resistivity tomography for landmines detection [PDF]
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 2008 Landmines are a type of inexpensive weapons widely used in the pre-conflicted areas in many countries worldwide. The two main types are the metallic and non-metallic (mostly plastic) landmines.
M. Metwaly +5 more
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Design of a cable-driven parallel robot for landmine detection
SN Applied Sciences, 2023 A cable-driven parallel robot (CDPR) for landmine detection, mounted on a vehicle is developed in this work. In the CDPR, the end effector (EE) is suspended on flexible cables, in contrast to the rigid links in traditional parallel robots.
Assylbek Jomartov +3 more
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