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Ground Pressure Measurement System This project is no longer active. Head: James Osborn Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated center: FRC

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Project Description

Ground pressure is recognized as an important constraint on a demining vehicle, becuase ground pressure is what disturbs the ground and triggers many land mines. If a demining vehicle is to safely traverse a minefield, it must exert as low a ground pressure as possible. Preferably this would be lower than the minimum pressure value which would detonate a mine.

Ground pressure of a vehicle can be considered a conplex function of vehicle parameters, tire properties, and soil characteristics. Due to the complex nature of this function, obtaining an accurate calculated value for ground pressure is difficult.

This ground pressure measurement device is an experimental device which can measure ground pressures of vehicles (or people), as it would be experienced by a land mine.

Past members

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Sachin Chheda	Undergraduate, ECE	chheda@cmu.edu
	Anthony Nolla	Technician III, RI/ECE
	James Osborn	Exec Dir, Quality of Life Tech Eng Cente	oz@cmu.edu

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Ground Pressure Measurement System Paper
  D. Griffiths and J. Osborn
  12th Annual International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets III, SPIE, April, 1998.
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