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7284628 Multipurpose motor vehicle with two coaxial parallel wheels and more electromagnetic holonomic wheels in tandem  
A vehicle with zero turning radius employing a minimum of two generally parallel matching annular wheels mounted with independent pneumatic toroidal suspensions fixed coaxially on a chassis. The...
7280890 Method for fabricating sliding vacuum cups  
A surface clinging robotic device. The device includes a supporting structure or base, on which is mounted (a) a lead pivoting support surface, such as a pivoting wheel, and (b) two or more...
7275607 Control of a personal transporter based on user position  
A controller for providing user input of a desired direction of motion or orientation for a transporter. The controller has an input for receiving specification by a user of a value based on a...
7273116 Dynamic balancing vehicle with a seat  
A device for transporting a human subject over a surface. The device is a dynamically balancing vehicle having a control loop for providing balance. The device includes a platform defining a...
7249640 Highly mobile robots that run and jump  
The present invention relates to novel, highly mobile small robots called “Mini-WHEGS™” that can run and jump. They are derived from our larger WHEGS™(“wheel-like lecis”) series of...
7210544 Control of a transporter based on attitude  
A transporter for transporting a load over a surface. The transporter includes a support platform for supporting the load. The support platform is characterized by a fore-aft axis, a lateral axis,...
7178614 Traveling apparatus and method for controlling thereof  
A traveling apparatus and a method for controlling thereof performs efficient charging with regenerative electrical power. An angle θ 0 of a table (not illustrated) is detected by a gyroscopic...
7174976 Dynamically stable transporter controlled by lean  
A transporter for transporting a subject over a surface that may be irregular. The transporter includes a support platform for supporting a load, the loaded support platform defining fore-aft and...
7168513 Dynamic legged robot  
A legged robot having a robot structure ( 20 ) in the form of a closed kinematic chain and an actuator ( 26 ) that contracts when activated. The contraction of the actuator extends a foot element (...
7165637 Robotic all terrain surveyor  
A vehicle including a body and three legs. Each leg includes a proximal end coupled to the body, a distal end opposite the proximal end, and an actuator. Each actuator imparts enough acceleration...
7155307 Surface adhering tool carrying robot  
A surface clinging robotic device. The device includes a supporting structure or base, on which is mounted (a) a lead pivoting support surface, such as a pivoting wheel, and (b) two or more...
7128175 Multi-terrain amphibious vehicle  
A multi-terrain amphibious vehicle for travel across various types of surfaces and upon various bodies of water. The vehicle has an elongated longitudinally extending chassis having a bottom...
7101139 Automated material handling system with motorized transfer vehicles  
A material handling system for use in storing and moving goods within multi-level storage warehouses, ocean going vessels and the like wherein storage areas are provided on at least one of the...
7090040 Motion control of a transporter  
A transporter for transporting a subject over a surface that may be irregular. The transporter includes a support platform for supporting a load, the loaded support platform defining fore-aft and...
7056185 Single axle wireless remote controlled rover with omnidirectional wheels  
A wireless remote controlled rover ( 100 ) having a circular outer boundary when viewed in profile, comprising an elongated round-profile frame ( 20 ) outfitted with a pair of omnidirectional...
7017686 Hybrid human/electric powered vehicle  
A personal transporter that provides both for propulsion by a user, and, at the same time, for dynamic stabilization by means of a powered actuator. A pitch variable such as pitch or time rate of...
7013200 Movable robot  
A movable robot includes a main body unit and at least three wheel units. The wheel units are connected with the main body unit. The wheel units at least partially project from the main body unit....
7004271 Dynamic balancing vehicle with a seat  
A device for transporting a human subject over a surface. The device is a dynamically balancing vehicle having a control loop for providing balance. The device includes a platform defining a...
6955235 Torque platform transport device  
A vehicle transport system including a torque platform with counter-rotating flywheels, whose axes of rotation are parallel to one another, is featured. One or more torque platforms are joined...
6920947 Exercise mode for a personal transporter device  
A personal transporter device and corresponding method of operation are given that utilize an exercise mode. A transporter assembly includes a platform, a ground-contacting module, and a motorized...
6915878 Self-balancing ladder and camera dolly  
A device and methods for supporting a payload, such as a user, at a variable height above the ground and for repositioning the payload in a dynamically stabilized mode of operation. The transporter...
6896078 Movable robot  
A movable robot includes a main body unit, and at least three wheel units connected with the main body unit. The wheel units have respective contact portions for contact with a floor surface. The...
6874591 Speed limiting for a balancing transporter  
A class of transporters for carrying an individual over ground having a surface that may be irregular. Various embodiments have a motorized drive, mounted to the ground-contacting module that...
6866107 Method and device for battery load sharing  
A device and method for equalizing the charge among a plurality of batteries redundantly driving a motor. The batteries are coupled to the motor through isolated windings and to each other through...
6827163 Non-linear control of a balancing vehicle  
A class of transporters for carrying an individual over ground having a surface that may be irregular. Various embodiments have a motorized drive, mounted to the ground-contacting module that...
6802381 Propulsion mechanism having spherical ball  
A propulsion mechanism is provided for driving a vehicle having a frame and socket. The propulsion mechanism has a spherical ball disposed within the socket and adapted to frictionally engage the...
6668950 Omni-directional munitions handling vehicle  
A munitions handling vehicle is adapted for loading and unloading weapons in military aircraft. The munitions handling vehicle includes a vehicle chassis and a plurality of wheel axles attached to...
6651766 Personal mobility vehicles and methods  
A class of transportation vehicles for carrying an individual over ground having a surface that may be irregular. This embodiment has a motorized drive, mounted to the ground-contacting module that...
6626255 Towing vehicle for towing persons moving rollers or gliding bodies  
The invention relates to a towing vehicle which moves on rollers or sliding bodies, for towing persons. The towing vehicle is provided with a motor drive which drives a driving wheel ( 1 ) that is...
6571892 Control system and method  
Systems and methods for controlling a device are disclosed. In one embodiment, the systems and methods allow for the control of a human transport device such that the human transport device remains...
6561294 Balancing vehicle with passive pivotable support  
A balancing vehicle that supports a rider on a support such as a seat in a such a manner as to allow the position of the center of gravity of the vehicle to be varied by motion of the support....
6543559 Vehicle propulsion system  
A propulsion system for a vehicle comprised of two wheels, both of which are in the shape of hemispheres. Each of the hemisphere wheels is mounted through a bearing on a fork with two pivots...
6527071 Appliance stabilized by a gyroscope, in particular a two-wheeled robot  
Appliance such as a two-legged robot made up of a system giving ground support and an upper body ( 30 ), equipped with a gyroscopic rotor wheel ( 31 ) which acts as a fulcrum to balance the...
6508319 Automobile ingress/egress system  
A system for enabling a person to enter an enclosed vehicle such as an automobile and to load a personal vehicle such as a wheelchair into the enclosed vehicle. A force sensing handle facilitates...
6477730 Aircraft maintenance apparatus and method of maintaining aircraft  
An apparatus and methods are provided for performing maintenance procedures such as washing, cleaning, deicing, and painting to an aircraft. The apparatus according to an embodiment of the present...
6443250 Control of a balancing personal vehicle  
A vehicle for transporting a payload over a surface that may be irregular and may include stairs. The vehicle has a support for supporting the payload and a ground contacting element movable with...
6394203 Method for designing low-vibration omni-directional wheels  
An omni-directional wheel for an omni-directional vehicle that exhibits constant ride height, low vibration, and reduced maximum ground contact pressure is disclosed. The invention consists of a...
6378634 Tracking device  
A tracking device includes an external member and an internal member rotatable relative to the external member. A motor is attached to the internal member and includes a rotor shaft attached to the...
6332103 Apparatus and method for a pitch state estimator for a personal vehicle  
An apparatus and method for a pitch state estimator is provided. The pitch state estimator generates a pitch state signal for establishing the orientation used in the control of a ground-traversing...
6308791 Steerable vertical to horizontal energy transducer for mobile robots  
The present invention provides a steerable vertical to horizontal energy transducer for mobile robots that less complex and requires less power than two degree of freedom tilt mechanisms. The...
6267191 Self advancing mining sled  
Disclosed is a self propelled device and method for transporting and positioning bulk solids handling equipment across working surfaces of limited bearing strength. Multiple advancing sleds (10)...
6231065 Tractor and trailer  
An extensible and retractable linear drive (5) connects a tractor unit (1) and a trailer unit (2) and is controlled by a control unit (11). The progress of the tractor/trailer combination is...
6223104 Fault tolerant architecture for a personal vehicle  
A motorized vehicle capable of fault detection and of operation after a fault has been detected. The vehicle has a plurality of control components coupled to a motorized drive and a comparator for...
6164397 Vehicle for traversing external curved surfaces  
A vehicle, designed to move across an external curved surface such as that of a pipe or cable, for example to monitor the condition of the surface or enable the application of a treatment to the...
6125955 Magnetic wheel  
An improved magnetic wheel for a vehicle that moves over ferromagnetic surfaces. The vehicle includes an articulating, remotely controlled chassis that is constructed around a variable frequency...
6003624 Stabilizing wheeled passenger carrier capable of traversing stairs  
A double-inverted wheeled passenger carrier (WPC) that is actively stabilizing on two or more axially-spaced wheels through a controller that senses and adjusts three degrees of freedom that allows...
6000484 Articulating wheeled permanent magnet chassis with high pressure sprayer  
A remotely controlled, magnetic wheeled vehicle having a high pressure spray head for cleaning ferromagnetic surfaces. An articulating CHASSIS supports a variable frequency motor, gear reducers,...
5975225 Transportation vehicles with stability enhancement using CG modification  
There is provided, in a preferred embodiment, a vehicle for transporting a payload (which may but need not include a human subject) over ground having a surface that may be irregular. This...
5950749 Automotive vehicle running on brakeable ball-bearing casters  
A vehicle employing a drive source for both running and direction changing, a wheelchair 30 for running primarily on a floor surface 9 has a main body 31, a drive motor 32, three rotary bases 37,...
5933899 Low pressure automatic swimming pool cleaner  
A pool cleaner operating with a pool cleaning system which is not equipped with a booster pump. The apparatus may comprise a frame having a forward end and a rearward end with a water inlet mounted...
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