Army chooses Carnegie Robotics

Carnegie Robotics experts will design and build several AMDS prototype mine-detection sensor suites and mount them to a government-furnished TALON IV tracked UGV from QinetiQ North America in Reston, Va., which the Army calls the Man-Transportable Robotic System (MTRS).

The AMDS consists of a suite of three payload modules to be deployed on an MTRS unmanned vehicle:

1. The mine detection and marking payload module
2. The explosive hazards detection and marking payload module
3. The neutralization payload module.

• The mine detection and marking payload module remotely detects and marks surface-laid and buried metallic and low-metallic antitank and antipersonnel land mines and scatterable munitions.
• The explosive hazards detection and marking payload module remotely detects and marks surface laid, partially buried. and camouflaged explosive hazards.
• The neutralization payload module, meanwhile, remotely neutralizes surface laid, buried and camouflaged explosive hazards.