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

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U Grizzly, the Armys 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 Grizzlys mine clearing blade MCB. The sensor will need to determine the MCBs plow depth to within a two-inch accuracy of a user-selected depth in order to effectively clear surface and buried land mines.

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