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“Humanitarian demining”, is growing up dramatically in the last decade. Here a new idea — application of a very well known tool from production automation “advanced robots” - will be presented. These robots of the new generation offer possibilities to solve this task in a very efficient way. Finally “Humanitarian Demining Multi Agent Systems — HDMAS” an autonomous, intelligent robot swarm for cleaning minefields in the future is discussed.
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Kopacek, P. (2004). Robots for Humanitarian Demining. In: Voicu, M. (eds) Advances in Automatic Control. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 754. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9184-3_11
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