Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla: Marsupial Robot Deployment and Recovery
This project was Intended to design and develop a method that would allow for a Bombot to remotley engage and lock in to the undercarriage of a Yamaha RMAX Helicopter. The Bombot had to be secured in all six degrees of freedom as well as not inhibit the performance characteristics of the RMAX. The total payload weight was required to be less than sixty pounds, and the center of mass of the payload was to be directly underneath the main rotor blades axis.
In order to accomplish this, the camera on the Bombot had to be lowered. But, lowering the camera would drastically decrease the operators line of sight, therefore the swinging platform was developed to allow for the user to control the height of the camera.
The videos below show the swinging platform being operated, as well as a solid model deconstruction of the swinging platform.
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