At present there are approximately 110 million landmines scattered around the world in 64 countries, The clearance of these mines takes place manually. Unfortunately, on average for every 5000 mines cleared one mine clearer is killed. Anautomatic mine detection device using mechatronics approach is under development in this work. The device imitates manual hand-prodding technique for mine detection. It inserts a bayonet into the soil and measures the stiffness variation in the soil toidentify the mine. The movement of the bayonet is controlled by a force-based compliance control system. An adaptive neuro-fuzzy controller (ASMOD) is employed to adapt the gain of the force controller according to the stiffness coefficient variation ofthe environment. The developed system is validated through computer simulation.
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