Intelligent Metal Detector

摘要

Humanitarian demining is a matter of high interest, but metal contamination and magnetic soils reduce the sensitivity of metal detectors. The soil contamination also increases the numbers of false alarms which, in some areas, account for as much as 99.9 % of all alarms. The decrease of false alarms is therefore attractive. Our solution is capable to be adapted and utilized with current professional metal detectors. Essentially it consists of several modules with modular structure, where the master module is always necessary in all applications and the navigation module has to be connected in cases where position estimation is required. Searching part of the detector is able to work in continuous wave mode with variable excitation signal and the possibility to utilize more carrier frequencies. Furthermore, the modular structure can use different search heads available on the market as well as heads developed for special purposes. The modular metal and mine detector described is capable to detect not only unexploded ordnance and explosive remnants of wars, but also pipes and wires in walls and floors indoor which is useful property during not only buildings reconstructions.