Russia has developed a new robotic system for humanitarian demining
Specialists of Bauman Moscow State Technical University have created an automated humanitarian demining system "Minscan". The drone scans the territory, and then a map of the minefield is created with the help of a neural network.
The system allows to detect explosive objects eight times faster than it would be done by foot sappers. It will help clear the territory of dangerous finds after the end of hostilities, a representative of the university told Izvestia.
"The AFU is increasingly starting to use remote mining systems, so there is always work for our sappers. Demining helps the Russian military to gradually advance, preserving the possibility of full supply, and also gives civilians a chance to return to their homes. "If we use these drones to conduct an initial inspection, to find the most obvious, visible and dangerous places, it will greatly speed up the work for our deminers," military expert Yuri Lyamin told Izvestia.
Work on creating robotic complexes related to demining has been underway for quite a long time, military expert Alexei Leonkov noted in a conversation with Izvestia.
"There are quite well-known systems that have already proved themselves, for example, "Uran-6", which mines entire strips and replaces the work of 30 sappers within an hour. The enemy is now placing a variety of mines, including unrecoverable, shell-less mines and booby traps, which are quite difficult for a deminer to detect. And even if he finds them, clearing them is associated with a great risk to life. And such a system should reduce it," he summarized.
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