Antitank mine detection system for armored vehicle

• US 20030189708A1
• Filed: 04/03/2002
• Published: 10/09/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Daewoo Electronics (Government of South Korea)
• Original Assignee: Daewoo Electronics (Government of South Korea)
• Inventors: Chang, Seogweon
• Application Number:
  US10/116,218
• Publication Number:
  US 20030189708A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 356/450
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 11/16 Self-propelled mine-clearing vehicles; Mine-clearing devices attachable to vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 1/001 Acoustic presence detection

Abstract

Disclosed is an antitank mine detection system for an armored vehicle using pulse electronic speckle pattern interferometry capable of detecting a mine that is buried in the ground, with no influence to the driving speed of the armored vehicle. The system includes an exciter producing the wave motion against the ground with the load itself and the operation speed, an optical source body disposed on the front part of the armored vehicle for irradiating a laser beam as an optical source to an antitank object in the ground, a sensor for taking interference speckle images by collecting the object beam and reference beam from the optical source body and a controller disposed on the armored vehicle body for processing the driving speed of the armored vehicle body, the irradiation speed of the optical source body, and the image of the sensor.

Claims

1. An antitank mine detection system for an armored vehicle, said system comprising:

an armored vehicle body serving as an exciter;

an optical source body disposed on the front part of said armored vehicle body;

a sensor disposed on the side of said optical source body, for detecting the fluctuations of an antitank object in the ground by the irradiation of said optical source body; and

a controller disposed on said armored vehicle body, for processing the driving speed of said armored vehicle body, the irradiation speed of said optical source body, and the image of said sensor.

2. The antitank mine detection system according to claim 1, wherein said controller comprises a trigger operating part for controlling the driving speed of said armored vehicle body and the irradiation speed of said optical source body and a data processing part for converting the image sensed by said sensor into an electrical signal and storing and processing the electrical signal.