Descripción del proyecto
Un dron para limpiar campos de minas
Los campos de minas activos propagan miedo y muerte en todo el mundo dirigidos contra civiles, principalmente mujeres y niños. Se estima que cada día mueren diez personas a causa de uno de los más de cien millones de campos de minas activos que se encuentran en más de sesenta países. La retirada de minas sigue siendo indispensable para la seguridad de las poblaciones de zonas beligerantes o posbeligerantes. Sin embargo, los métodos existentes basados en técnicas manuales o en el uso de animales son caros, peligrosos y lentos, de forma que limitan la eficacia del proceso de retirada de minas. El proyecto MKD, financiado con fondos europeos, propone un nuevo sistema de detección de minas terrestres basado en vehículos aéreos no tripulados (VANT). El sistema Mine Kafon Drone es una solución barata, rápida, eficaz, fiable y segura. Cartografía y barre zonas enteras para encontrar las minas y, a continuación, coloca un pequeño detonador en cada mina detectada.
Objetivo
"There are more than 100 million active landmines throughout the world. These explosive devices not only kill 10 innocent civilians every day, but they breed fear and helplessness in the minds of millions of people around the world. Speaking about the landmine issue, Paul McCartney of The Beatles said: ""When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.""
Using current technologies, detecting and clearing all landmines across the entire world would not be accomplished within our lifetime. These established processes, such as manual or animal-based discovery, are slow, dangerous and expensive. These drawbacks often mean that no demining efforts are even started in the first place.
Massoud and Mahmud Hassani, the founders of Mine Kafon, grew up on the edge of Kabul, in Afghanistan. They experienced the horrors of landmines from an early age. These experiences fueled the brothers to found Hassani Design BV and develop the Mine Kafon Drone (MKD) system. Using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the MKD offers a disruptive solution to landmine detection, providing a reliable and safe system that maps entire areas and scans them centimetre by centimere. Moreover, it does so faster, cheaper and more efficient than current technologies, without putting any human or animal life at risk.
The following proposal explores MKD's potential by examining its technical feasibility (problem-solution fit) and its commercial feasibility (product-market fit). With an increasing amount of money allocated for humanitarian demining, and with the drone market undergoing an exponential rise, the time to solve this long overdue problem is now. Help us make the world a safer, more hopeful place!"
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1
Régimen de financiación
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinador
6224BL MAASTRICHT
Países Bajos
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.