Taiyuan University of Technology

Taiyuan University of Science and Technoloy

Polar Research Institute of China

Pengyang Du

Qingxue Huang

Fuqiang Zhao

Baoyu Chang

Bo Sun

Jingxue Guo

Yinke Dou

Tie Wang

A giant gully-crossing vehicle for polar scientific expeditions, including a gully-crossing bridge and a vehicle body. The vehicle body includes a stage and a travelling portion. The stage includes a top platform, a front bottom plate, a rear bottom plate and a multifunctional lock platform assembly. The front bottom plate and the rear bottom plate are capable of sliding independently relative to the top platform. The travelling portion includes a first travelling component, a second travelling component, a third travelling component, a fourth travelling component, a fifth travelling component and a sixth travelling component which are symmetrically provided at left and right sides of the stage and below the stage. Bridge bodies of the bridge components can be assembled to two gully-crossing bridges, and are connected to the multifunctional lock platform assembly when crossing gullies.

Giant gully-crossing vehicles for polar scientific expedition

A giant six-legged polar research vehicle with tracked feet, including a platform, six legs arranged at six ends of the platform and six tracked feet arranged below the six legs. A monitoring device is arranged on a top cover. Six power compartments each having a steering device are arranged at six ends of a chassis in the platform. Each leg includes a main traveling device with an upper end and a lower end respectively connected to the steering device and a tracked foot, an auxiliary traveling device with an upper end and a lower end respectively connected to the chassis and the main traveling device, and a connecting device arranged on the main traveling device. The tracked foot includes a main flipping mechanism, an auxiliary flipping mechanism, a tracked foot slewing device, a crawler, a sliding plate and a suspension.

Giant six-legged polar research vehicle with tracked feet

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