Instrumented Scanning Manipulator for Landmines Detection Tasks

This paper presents an instrumented robotic arm for landmines detection tasks during humanitarian demining activities. The manipulator has 5 DOF and it is endowed with a metal detector for landmines detection and a mini-TOF camera for mapping the terrain that has to be scanned. The mini-TOF camera provides a point cloud of the terrain that allows keeping the metal detector at a constant height above the ground and performing an efficient scanning of the contaminated terrain.