The KAOS Heavy carrier configured for mechanical land clearance. The KAOS Heavy carrier with a flail ahead of its tracks, six tools on one interface and a record of the ground it worked, with nobody in the area.
The width the tool works, the speeds it works and travels at, the tools it carries and its length with the flail: the figures a clearance task is planned around.
The machine works the lane under autonomous, supervised or remote control, with a named person at a station outside the hazardous area.
Flail or tiller, rake, dozer blade, roller, magnetic sweep and soil sifter mount on one interface, so the site sets the sequence and the carrier stays.
A georeferenced map, the machine's state, video and reports, so the ground worked can be audited by somebody who was not there.
The diesel makes electricity and the flail's hydraulics run on a pump of their own, so rotor speed, ground speed and depth are separate settings.
Grouped the way a mine action program's engineer reads a clearance machine: the configuration, the working geometry, the envelope, power, navigation and the record, and the tools.
The configurationWorking geometry and speedEnvelope and massPower and enduranceNavigation, perception, link and recordTool modules
| Parameter | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | KAOS Heavy tracked carrier | the carrier this configuration is built on |
| Configuration | Modular autonomous land-clearance system | mechanical processing of suspected ground |
| Primary attachment | Flail or tiller module on hydraulic arms | interchangeable with the other tool modules |
| Control | Autonomous, supervised or remote | the cab is empty while the tool works |
| Personnel | Nobody in the hazardous area | the task is planned, run and monitored from outside it |
| Parameter | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Working width | 3.0 m | configurable |
| Processing depth | Adjustable | set by threat and soil |
| Working speed | 0.5–3.0 km/h | terrain and mission dependent |
| Road and track speed | Up to 15 km/h | travel on road and track |
| Parameter | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Length | ~10.5 m with the flail | approximate |
| Width | 3.2 m | approximate |
| Height | 3.1 m | approximate |
| Operational mass | ~38,000–42,000 kg | configuration dependent |
| Parameter | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Power | High-horsepower diesel; dedicated hydraulic system | the tool circuit shares a pump with nothing |
| Drivetrain | Series diesel-electric carrier | the diesel turns a generator and electric motors drive the tracks |
| Operational range | Extended duration | fuel dependent |
| Parameter | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Navigation | GNSS/INS, LiDAR, vision, odometry | positions the work in the frame the site is surveyed in |
| Perception | 360° LiDAR, stereo and thermal cameras, millimetre-wave radar | radar keeps working in the dust the tool raises |
| Communications | Dual redundant, with radio, satellite and mesh options | a lost link stops the machine or returns it |
| Mission recording | Georeferenced map, machine state, video, reports | the task as authorized and as carried out |
| Parameter | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Flail / tiller | Primary clearance tool; replaceable flails; heavy plate housing | processes the lane to the set depth |
| Rake / debris | Surface preparation and debris removal | clears wire, root and scrap before the rotor runs |
| Dozer blade | Grading and surface preparation | a stated depth is measured from a graded surface |
| Roller | Compaction | load through a rolling drum on the machine's own arms |
| Magnetic sweep | Ferrous metal collection | lifts loose metal ahead of the search that follows |
| Soil sifter | Separation and analysis before clearance | what it finds sets the depth, the speed and the tool |
Mine action turns suspected ground back into usable ground, and what a client receives is evidence: a defined area worked to a stated depth by a stated method, recorded well enough to be signed for.
KAOS-MC Land supports mine action, infrastructure recovery and community safety by doing the bulk of the work mechanically, with nobody in the hazardous area. Proving ground is repetitive, measurable work over hectares, dangerous because nobody knows which square metre is the bad one. Dealing with a device that has been found is one expert act on one known object, and it belongs to qualified people under the authority that owns the ground.
Survey reduces a suspected area to the ground that has to be worked, before the machine arrives.
Vegetation and debris off, soil worked to a stated depth across a stated width, recorded against a grid, with nobody in the hazardous area.
Search, the individual find and what is done about it are a separate discipline, carried out under the authority that owns the ground.
KAOS-MC Land is not a new machine. It is the KAOS Heavy tracked carrier in a clearance configuration, and most of what the work asks was already a property of the platform.
CDNS KAOS is one tracked architecture in three sizes, drawn around the absence of a driver. Clearance is a configuration at the heavy end of the family: the carrier as drawn, a flail or tiller on hydraulic arms ahead of the tracks, and one interface that settles what the machine does that day.
Traction on a lane is small and steady: a straight line at 0.5 to 3.0 km/h. The rotor is the opposite, continuous flow at pressure with a load that jumps at every stone, so the tool circuit is dedicated and the battery on the bus takes the spike when the head loads. Rotor speed, ground speed and depth become three settings rather than three consequences of one throttle.
The primary attachment is a flail or tiller module on hydraulic arms, a deliberately simple machine in which every part of the simplicity does a job.
A heavy shaft runs the working width of the head, turned by the tool circuit's own hydraulic drive. Chains hang from hubs along it with a hardened hammer at the end of each, and as the rotor turns the hammers strike the ground in an overlapping pattern to the depth the head is set to. A chain carries no bending moment, so a buried rock costs a hammer rather than a broken tine.
Flail and tiller are two rotors on one mount and one drive: the flail strikes and throws, the tiller cuts and turns. The head changes at the end of the arms on locking pins, hydraulic couplings and an electrical connection, and the machine reads what is fitted before it hands over oil.
The hammers wear from the first minute and are meant to. They change on pins in the field, in sets that keep the rotor balanced.
Plate closes the top and back of the chamber so what the rotor lifts goes back into the ground, with chain curtains across the mouth.
The head rides on adjustable skids, on arms that let it follow the surface rather than fight it.
The tool works 3.0 m wide, configurable, to a depth set by threat and soil, at a working speed between 0.5 and 3.0 km/h.
The rotor turns at the speed its own circuit sets, so the strikes a square metre receives rise as ground speed falls: halve the speed and the same ground takes twice the work. Working speed sets how thoroughly the ground is worked as well as how quickly the lane advances.
Depth and speed are bought from one another. Working deeper removes more soil per metre advanced, and a head will not advance faster than its rotor can work what it is cutting. Lanes overlap, and whatever overlap the procedure requires comes off the 3.0 m in proportion.
The flail is the primary tool and one of six. All six mount on the same carrier through the same interface, and a real task runs several of them in turn.
Separation and analysis before clearance. What it finds sets the depth, the speed and the tool.
Wire, root, rubble and scrap cleared before anything else runs, so the rotor does not wrap.
Grading and surface preparation, because a stated depth is measured down from a surface.
The primary clearance tool at the width, depth and speed the first three steps settled, on the lane pattern the supervisor authorized.
Ferrous collection out of worked soil, so the search that follows is not answering a signal every metre.
Compaction where the task calls for it, through a rolling drum on the machine's own arms.
The order is the site's, not the machine's. A route task may be blade and roller alone; another may be sifter, rake and flail with no roller at all. What the machine standardizes is the change: one mount, one drive and one identity handshake, so changing what the machine does is a task on the ground rather than a second machine on a transporter.
The tool makes its own weather, so the machine carries sensors that do not share one weakness, and it records the work in the frame the site is surveyed in.
Range and geometry in every direction: the boundary, the edge of the last lane, an obstacle, a person. Darkness is nothing to it; dust is.
Two views give depth and texture, and thermal finds a person at night, in vegetation and in dust.
It passes through the dust and light rain that scatter light, and it is carried because the tool blinds the other sensors.
Satellite position carried and smoothed by an inertial unit: the frame the whole record is written in.
Distance and heading from the drive. It carries position under a treeline, and where it disagrees with the other two it shows where the tracks slipped.
The record earns its cost in the gaps: the strip where the head came up early, the metre where the tool was lifted over an obstacle, the stretch where the tracks slipped. With nobody in the area the machine is the only witness, and it records the passes that went badly at the fidelity of the ones that went well.
The two mine clearance configurations, KAOS-MC Land and KMM-01, carry GNSS and a command link, because clearance is bounded, supervised and recorded work.
Clearance is done inside a boundary the customer set, on ground whose perimeter the customer controls and has surveyed, under a named supervisor who is watching, and it has to produce a record an authority audits afterwards in the frame the site was surveyed in. Satellite positioning is the frame that deliverable exists in.
The base KAOS carrier is commanded down an optical fibre from a stand-off station. A clearance machine walks kilometres of lane and drives over the ground behind it, so this configuration carries a dual-redundant command link, with radio, satellite and mesh as its options.
A lost link is a defined degraded state that stops the machine or returns it, settled before the task starts. The brakes are held off by power and close on their own springs whether the link is there or not.
What changes between tasks is the tool on the arms and the way the machine is controlled.
Chains and hammers on a rotor across the working width, struck into the ground to the depth the head is set to. The hammers are consumables, changed on pins in sets.
A second rotor on the same mount and drive. Flail or tiller is a soil and threat decision taken by the people who surveyed the ground.
The machine is 3.2 m across, so lanes are planned to overlap. A head wider than the carrier puts the tracks inside the worked lane, with more rotor to turn and more mass on the arms.
In all three the cab is empty while the tool works, and a named person at a station outside the hazardous area holds the authority and the stop.
The lines that hold on this configuration, for every customer.
The page this sheet specifies, and the sheets beside it in the line.
The page this sheet specifies, with the pictures and the reasoning.
The diesel-electric tracked work platform, built to be autonomous.
Every product and platform on one sheet each, on the web and as a PDF.
A first conversation is about the ground: the area as your own survey has narrowed it, who controls the perimeter, what the soil is, and what the land must be fit for afterwards.
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