BOMB DETECTION AND DEFUSION IN PLANES BY APPLICATION OF ROBOTICS
Prashant Limje, Shailesh Narayanrao Khekale · 2013
Terrorism is a very actual problem. Although terrorist attacks came in succession from the early seventies and eighties, recent events have raised the technological scale and the dimension of the actions. High level of security is required and bomb-disposal experts are frequently exposed to risks in mission. The effects on the society are blameworthy. Media like television and radio tend to scare people; travels and flights become less attractive. This trend risks to flow into cultural and religious forms of racism. Entertainment and leisure are means that can help to fight against this fear. Earlier we are using human power to defuse the bomb; this paper describes the development of a videogame that simulates the rescue of a potential bomb from an airplane by means of a mobile robot. The user can control real-time the robot, using the keyboard. The device, actuated by two crawlers, carries a 7 DoF arm and moves inside a virtual airplane. The videogame, based on Open Dynamics Engine (ODE), supports dynamics and collision detection. The graphic engine Open Scene Graph (OSG) enhances the reality of the game. The system has been also designed for training of bomb-disposal experts that will maneuver explosive ordnance disposal robots.