Ultra-Wideband Radar Development for Non-Touch Terrain Sensing Application on Close Combat Support Vehicles

摘要

Grizzly, the Army's next-generation complex obstacle breaching system, operates in a harsh environment where sand, dirt, dust, mud, obscurants, battlefield debris, varying levels of vegetation, wide temperature ranges, and ballistic shock from artillery, direct fire, and both anti-tank and anti- personnel mine are the norm. One of the mission critical capabilities of the Grizzly is to effectively breach minefields. (U) The US Army Tank and Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), along with the Army Research Laboratory (ARL), have a joint Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) effort with Intelligent Automation Incorporated (IAI) to develop a novel non-touch terrain sensing technology that may be used to control the plow depth of the Grizzly's mine clearing blade (MCB). The sensor will need to determine the MCB's plow depth to within a two-inch accuracy of a user-selected depth in order to effectively clear surface and buried land mines.