Leveraging
the success of the hand-held land mine detector, L-3 CyTerra
has developed an Autonomous Mine Detection Sensor (AMDS)
packaged on a remotely operated vehicular robot (PackBot).
The AMDS program, sponsored by the U.S. Army CERDEC RDES
Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate, sought
to produce an autonomous mine detection vehicle that achieved
the same performance of a handheld mine detector. For the
AMD sensor, L-3 CyTerra transferred battlefield-proven AN/PSS-14
technology to the AMDS including the sensor head, electronics
unit, and clutter filtering algorithms. In addition, autonomous
detection algorithms were designed for both anti-tank and
anti-personnel mines which help reduce the operator's work
load and the associated training requirements for this technology.
