Patent ID: 9682645
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: B60P

Claim:
1. A transporter for the transport of a payload across an uneven ground surface, the transporter comprising: a body; a payload support module to support a payload above the body in use; an array of four elongate extendable elevators, each one of the four elongate extendable elevators having a rotationally restricted joint at a first end and a joint configured to allow three full degrees of freedom of rotation at a second end; wherein each of the four elongate extendable elevators is independently operable so as to enable the elongate extendable elevators together to vary both height and attitude of the payload relative to the body; wherein each of the four elongate extendable elevators comprises a load sensor; and wherein the rotationally restricted joint allows the elongate extendable elevator to pivot relative to an axis orthogonal to its elongate direction but acts to prevent its rotation about an axis parallel to its elongate direction.