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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2005
Christopher B. Mccubbin, New Market, MD (US);
Christine D. Piatko, Columbia, MD (US);
Steven J. Marshall, Baltimore, MD (US);
Jessica L. Pistole, Baltimore, MD (US);
Cheryl L. Resch, Columbia, MD (US);
Paul Mcnamee, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Christopher B. McCubbin, New Market, MD (US);
Christine D. Piatko, Columbia, MD (US);
Steven J. Marshall, Baltimore, MD (US);
Jessica L. Pistole, Baltimore, MD (US);
Cheryl L. Resch, Columbia, MD (US);
Paul McNamee, Ellicott City, MD (US);
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for mine avoidance that enables a battle group commander to rapidly detect, classify, and identify mines, and form a tactical picture of mined areas. The system is enabled by a graphical user interface which generates a display of the minefield and an avoidance path which is calculated by a rapidly-explored random trees algorithm interacting with algorithms defining avoidance object spaces inserted by an operator in two or three dimensions and transit vehicle characteristics. The apparatus enables a method which establishes the parameters of an area representing a minefield. The area is then populated with obstacle spaces whose areas are functions of the probability of the existence of a mine and through which an avoidance route through the minefield may not pass. The start and end points of the avoidance route are entered on a graphic display of the minefield and an avoidance path there between is calculated and presented as an avoidance route.