2D surface mapping for mine detection using wireless network

Abstract

There are presently approximately 500 million live, buried mines in about 70 countries, which present a major threat to lives and cause economic problems. It is a matter of deep concern because it's difficult to detect the mines when their exact position is unknown. Though governments of affected countries take this matters seriously, there is no significant progress as they are still practicing manual methods from decades ago. It would take almost hundreds of years if we kept relying on those manual methods because of wide variety of mines with tremendous diversity of terrains. The purpose of this paper is to design a mapping robot system prototype (MinerBot) using microcontroller and sensors which is capable of mapping any surface with depth value in real time which will then help in mine detection. MinerBot can move in any direction and collect information using ultrasonic sensor, which is connected to a microcontroller then it was passed on to the mapping function in MATLAB via socket communication. MinerBot is autonomous, efficient and cheap.