Patent ID: 6938570
Filing Date: 2005-09-06
Classification: B63B,B63C,E02B

Abstract:
1. A mooring robot for releasably fastening a moored vessel to a dock or to a second vessel, the mooring robot including: an attractive attachment element releasably engageable with a surface for fastening the moored vessel; a substantially vertical elongate guide to which the attachment element is slidably fixed, for raising and lowering the attachment element; a substantially horizontal track to which the attractive attachment is slidably fixed, the horizontal track being aligned parallel with a longitudinal axis of the moored vessel for fore and aft movement of the attachment element; a parallel arm linkage having two parallel arms each pivoted about respective axes which are parallel to the longitudinal axis of the moored vessel for extending and retracting the attachment element in a transverse direction, the parallel arms being pivotably fixed to the vertical guide; and respective powered actuating means for movement of the attachment element in the vertical, longitudinal and transverse directions.