{"id":2,"date":"2017-09-12T12:48:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T12:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsdprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2017teamb\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2018-05-06T13:13:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T17:13:43","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mrsdprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2017teamb\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Multi-Modal Sensing to Reduce Cost, Risk, and Error in Landmine Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55\" src=\"http:\/\/mrsdprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2017teamb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/09\/cropped-travel_478.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrsdprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2017teamb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/09\/cropped-travel_478.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/mrsdprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2017teamb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/09\/cropped-travel_478-300x70.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mrsdprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2017teamb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/09\/cropped-travel_478-768x179.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mrsdprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2017teamb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/09\/cropped-travel_478-1024x238.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Landmines are a tragic remnant of war that the threaten economic security, mobility, and lives of people around the world. Though there has been a plethora of research in landmine sensing in the last few decades, most methods are expensive, energy-intensive, and result in a high number of false positives. <strong>ClearField Robotics<\/strong> aims to improve outcomes in the field by reducing the time and cost of land surveying.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m2MoFOFM4Ng?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By incorporating multi-modal sensing systems, we can reduce the need for singular, highly sensitive, and expensive equipment with sensor fusion. The goal of <strong>ClearField<\/strong> <strong>Robotics<\/strong> is to develop a low cost, user-friendly, and adoptable method of landmine detection without sacrificing accuracy. We combine a traditional metal detector (for broad sweeping) and an automated probing mechanism (to classify the shape of any detected metal objects) to reduce the number of false positives, increase demining speed, reduce demining costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landmines are a tragic remnant of war that the threaten economic security, mobility, and lives of people around the world. Though there has been a plethora of research in landmine sensing in the last few decades, most methods are expensive, energy-intensive, and result in a high number of false positives. ClearField Robotics aims to improve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mrsdprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2017teamb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using Multi-Modal Sensing to Reduce Cost, Risk, and Error in Landmine Detection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsdprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2017teamb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsdprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2017teamb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsdprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2017teamb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsdprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2017teamb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsdprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2017teamb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/mrsdprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2017teamb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/mrsdprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2017teamb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsdprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2017teamb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}