Process for autonomously locating and retrieving toxic heavy metal and radioactive contaminants

Claim 1

A process for locating, marking and retrieving depleted uranium rounds from contaminated proving ground areas which steps include: outfitting a trailer with a base console having the electronic capability of reading a generic map and developing therefrom a search map plot for establishing the boundaries and topological features of said contaminated area to be autonomously searched; providing a mobile platform carried by said trailer for autonomously operating in said contaminated area on remotely transmitted instruction of said base console; providing a mobile generator for supplying the electric power for said base console; surveying the accurate location of a fixed multi-channel global positioning receiver for use by operators stationed at said base console; outfitting said mobile platform with a mobile second multichannel global positioning receiver that is slaved to said fixed global positioning receiver for accurately determining the distance of said mobile receiver to said fixed receiver; outfitting said mobile platform with a plurality of low level radiation detection cameras for sensing the location of said depleted uranium rounds and for transmitting their initial position to said base console; remotely instructing the movement of said mobile platform, by teleoperation from said base console, to begin searching the contaminated area for depleted uranium rounds along inertial specifically computerized map paths having boundary nodal point limits generated by said base console and remotely instructing said mobile platform to return to said trailer.