Ukraine is Riddled with Land Mines: Drones and AI Can Help

IF 2.6 4区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC

IEEE Spectrum Pub Date : 2024-03-08 DOI:10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10522930

Jasper Baur

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Abstract

EARLY ON A JUNE MORNING in 2023, my colleagues and I drove down a bumpy dirt road north of Kyiv in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Armed Forces were conducting training exercises nearby, and mortar shells arced through the sky. We arrived at a vast field for a technology demonstration set up by the United Nations. Across the 25-hectare field—that's about the size of 62 American football fields—the U.N. workers had scattered 50 to 100 inert mines and other ordnance. Our task was to fly our drone over the area and use our machine learning software to detect as many as possible. And we had to turn in our results within 72 hours.

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乌克兰地雷遍布：无人机和人工智能能帮上忙

2023 年 6 月的一个清晨，我和同事们驱车行驶在乌克兰基辅以北一条崎岖不平的土路上。乌克兰武装部队正在附近进行训练演习，迫击炮弹在空中划出一道道弧线。我们来到一片广阔的田野，这里是联合国设立的技术展示场地。在这片 25 公顷的场地上，大约有 62 个美式足球场那么大，联合国工作人员撒下了 50 到 100 枚惰性地雷和其他弹药。我们的任务是让无人机飞越该区域，使用机器学习软件尽可能多地探测出地雷。我们必须在 72 小时内提交结果。

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IEEE Spectrum 工程技术-工程：电子与电气

CiteScore

2.50

自引率

0.00%

发文量

254

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

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