ANY KIND OF OFF-ROAD VEHICLES
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Varlet Tank, Delaye, 1937
Varlet Tank, Delaye, 1937. From book of Daniel Tard : 'Hotchkiss, petit dictionnaire du "juste milieu", Massin, 1994.
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Aeroluge, 1942
Aeroluge Tatra Type V 855 unique prototype, 1942. 75 hp engine, consumption 13l/100, speed 80 km/h. Issued from Tatra T97 of 1936. J M M at Rétromobile, Paris, 1999.
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Delta Beetle Toyota 1991
Delta Beetle Toyota, golden medal of Toyota competition 1991. With its triangular wheels and its tracks, it could go upstairs. Pict from 'Le Livre des Invention' from Valérie-Anne Giscard d'Estaing, Fixot 1993.
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Locomotion like walking dragline in Meccano 2
Locomotion like walking dragline in Meccano (or Erector). J M M at a Toys Show, Paris, April 1998.
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Locomotion like walking dragline in Meccano
Locomotion like walking dragline in Meccano (or Erector). J M M at a Toys Show at Paris, April 1998.
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Meccano Terrastar at a Toys Show in Paris, 1998
Meccano Terrastar. J M M at a Toys Show at Porte de Versailles, Paris, 1998
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Oval wheels like on a Meccano Vehicle
Oval wheels like on a Meccano Vehicle. J M M a Toys Show at Paris, April 1998. See Chap 'The Wheel Reinvented'.
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Tracked vehicle in Meccano/Erector
Tracked vehicle model built with Meccano (or Erector). The 4 tracks each surrounds a Tri-Star wheel. J M M at Paris, April 2003.
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Tractor with spring wheels
Tractor with spring wheels. J M M at Sinsheim, Germany, Dec 2000.
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Mecanum wheel of Segway RMP
Mecanum wheel of Segway RMP. Mecanum wheel is omnidirectional but not really off-road. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecanum_wheel and http://rmp.segway.com/rmp-400-omni/
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Tristar of Mechanical Stair-Climbing Transporter
Tristar of Mechanical Stair-Climbing Transporter was a Senior Project in 1998 at Polytechnic University, NY. http://mechanical.poly.edu/academics/senior/sen98/transporter/transporter.htm
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Worm like robot
Worm like robot, new kind of locomotion at Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio. http://biorobots.cwru.edu/projects/softworm/
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Cutangus tracked offroad vehicle
Cutangus tracked offroad vehicle. On this drawing, tracks looks like legs to allow crossing obstacles.
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Virginia Tech IMPASS robot at the VT campus, Wheg robot
Virginia Tech IMPASS robot at the VT campus, Wheg robot, 2008. http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/video-virginia-techs-impass-robot-has-spokes-but-no-rims/
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Toroïdal locomotion by inverted torus
Toroïdal locomotion by inverted torus of Dr Valery Shihirin www.elastoneering.com Research on inverted torus seems to be continued since 2008 by Roman Maksymenko of Max-Master, region of Moscow. http://www.max-master.com/
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M2A2 Terrastar
M2A2 Terrastar was issued from Lockheed's Terrastar around 1968 and now in Rock Island Arsenal, Iowa. This prototype of the two survives. From Wikipedia
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Alduro walking vehicle
Alduro walking vehicle. http://www.uni-due.de/alduro/index_en.shtml
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