Volvo WE202
It is 2111. The melted icebergs flooded areas near oceans and seas. People have been moving from lowlands to mountains. Volvo engineering got hard times during creating construction machine which can handle rough and unreacheable terrain. Finally, an idea of Walking Excavator showed up. Let me introduce you VOLVO WE202.
Idea behind WE202 was to create hybrid between excavator that can be ridden on road and also crossing all types off terrain. Body is separated to two parts. This two parts are connected with one turnable base to which two ball joints are connected.
4 XL motors are used to rotate each arm of excavator
3 M motors are used to actuate 6 linear actuators used for steering and also rotating main excavator elbow
1 M motor is used to actuate 2 pneumatic pumps.
WE202 consists of total 14 pneumatic cylinders, 8 of them is used to move legs and 6 of them operate excavator arm. Thanks to every joint and legs whole excavator can be leveled flat even on the slopes. Weight ~3.4 kg.
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