Motor vehicles – Special driving device – Stepper
Patent
1994-10-17
1996-05-14
Focarino, Margaret A.
Motor vehicles
Special driving device
Stepper
901 1, 901 50, 180 15, B62D 57024
Patent
active
055159346
ABSTRACT:
A modular robot body assembly includes a generally rhombicuboctahedron geometric shape segmented into five modules symmetrically located around a horizontal center shaft system which allows the robot body, front legs, and back legs to rotate about a horizontal center axis with respect to one another. Four quarter-shell modules are arranged at 90 degree angles from each other about the common horizontal center axis and joined at edges to each other and at their inner facing edges to a core module containing a shaft rotatably mounted along the horizontal center axis. Each module may contain functionally different parts that can be mixed and matched with other modules to suit particular applications. A flexible coil conduit is connected between the shaft and the core module providing an electrical linkage form the robot body to the legs while maintaining rotational capability of the legs with respect to the body.
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Focarino Margaret A.
Johnson Victor E.
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