ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT STATE, CHARACTERISTICS AND PROSPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT OF EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DETECTION SENSORS MOUNTED ON UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS

Abstract

In recent years, the international community has become increasingly aware of the scale and severity of the problems posed by landmines and explosive remnants of war, including unexploded ordnance, gradually agreeing that this is a global problem that requires international concerted actions [1].
 Significant excess of pace of development and intensity of mines use in comparison with the means of demining determine the urgency of the problem of ensuring the required level of their technical perfection. At the same time, special attention should be paid to ensuring the required level of quality of demining processes, reducing to a minimum level of explosive threats and cost of demining [2]. In modern economic conditions, the high efficiency of UXO detection in a certain area with relatively minimal cost of material and human resources is of great importance.
 The article analyzes the possibility of detecting explosive ordnance using a thermal imager, hyperspectral camera, magnetometer, metal detector which are installed on an unmanned aerial system (UAS). In addition, there was given consideration to the properties of sensors for detecting explosive ordnance which will ensure their full use during humanitarian demining: performance, transportability, survivability, reliability, failure-free, durability, maintainability, storage ability, cost effectiveness. Explosive ordnance detection sensors mounted on UAS must have their own navigation system or be connected to an on-board navigation system that links information from the sensors to the terrain. It must be possible to determine the coordinates of any object after landing an UAS and process information from the sensors. The calculations were made regarding the effectiveness of actions for searching and detecting explosive ordnance using an unmanned aerial system.