公开(公告)号：US09809264B1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-07

申请号：US14734817

申请日：2015-07-20

申请人： Kurt A. Talke ,  Aaron Bruce Burmeister ,  Anthony Douglas Jones

发明人： Kurt A. Talke ,  Aaron Bruce Burmeister ,  Anthony Douglas Jones

IPC分类号： B62D55/04 ,  B62D55/084 ,  B62D55/14 ,  B62D55/32 ,  G05D1/08

CPC分类号： B62D55/04 ,  B62D55/084 ,  B62D55/14 ,  B62D55/32

摘要： A dynamically balanced, tracked robot, which can switch between dynamically balanced (wheeled) operation and tracked operation, can include a body and at least one wheel rotatably mounted to the body. At least one strut can also be mounted to the body so that it extends therefrom, and an idler wheel can be fixed to the distal end of the strut. A track can be slipped over the wheel and that idler wheel, so that the track frictionally engages both the wheel and the idler wheel. The robot can have a defined vertical reference vector and a processor. The processor can have non-transitory written instructions that, when accomplished, cause the vertical reference vector to be parallel with a vector defined by the robot axis and the revised post-installation center of gravity, to continue to allow for dynamic balancing of the newly-tracked robot.