Patent ID: 11945529
Assignee: PLASAN SASA LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 16:
17. A modular slave vehicle articulatable at one end thereof to another slave vehicle and at another end thereof to an independently driven master vehicle having a coupling portion, simultaneously, said modular slave vehicle comprising:
a body including a driving system for driving said modular slave vehicle;
a slave structural frame supporting said body, having a rear end and a front end;
a master coupling system in the form of a mechanical stress absorbing coupling mechanism mounted to said front end, said master coupling system being detachably articulatable to said coupling portion of the master vehicle so as to constrain, at least partially, all translational DOF of the vehicles relatively to each other, and leave at least one rotational DOF at least partially unconstrained;
at least one first slave coupling device mounted to said front end distal from the master coupling system; and
at least one second slave coupling device mounted to said rear end;
a control system operatively connected to said driving system, said control system being configured, when said slave vehicle is articulated directly or via one or more slave vehicles to the master vehicle, to:
receive a first input signal indicative of a value of at least one driving parameter of the master vehicle, and a second input signal indicative of the number of slave vehicles between the master vehicle and the slave vehicle of the control system;
process said input signals; and
produce instructions to said driving system, based on said processing, to adjust the value of a corresponding driving parameter of said slave vehicle accordingly;
wherein said control system is configured to receive a third input signal indicative of at least one dimension of said master vehicle, and consider all three input signals during processing.