ROCKER-BOOGIE FOR MILITARY USE

The rocker-bogie suspension system has robust capabilities to deal with uneven terrain because it’s distributing the payload over its six wheels uniformly. Most of the cover designs have been developed for Mars and Moon surfaces in order to understand the geological history of the soil and rocks. Exploration operations need high-speed and long-distance traversal in a short mission period due to environmental effects, climate, and communication restrictions In this research, a new suspension mechanism has been designed and its kinematic analysis results were discussed. One of the major shortcomings of current Rocker-Bogie rovers is that they are slow. In our project, we have focused on a six-wheeled rocker-bogie suspension system design which has the advantage of linear boogie motion in protecting the whole system from getting rollovers during high-speed operations. This has greatly increased the reliability of the structure on rough terrains and also enables its higher speed exploration with the same obstacle height capacity as twice the diameter of the wheel. The project aims to improve some basic working so that it can perform in a better way.