Rover Suspension

[Gene]

I was looking at NASA's Rocker-bogie suspension used on the Perseverance and Curiosity rovers and thought it looked very cool.

This suspension allows the main body to be stable while driving over rough terrain. As you can see in this gif it has only two hinges attached to one another

I then wondered if I could build a functional version in SFS, and it turns I could:

Video of suspension

Keep in mind this rover was not designed with aesthetics in mind, and I'm sure it could be massively shrunk down.

 

[SCF international]

nice

 

[Mars Pathfinder]

I was looking at NASA's Rocker-bogie suspension used on the Perseverance and Curiosity rovers and thought it looked very cool.

This suspension allows the main body to be stable while driving over rough terrain. As you can see in this gif it has only two hinges attached to one another
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I then wondered if I could build a functional version in SFS, and it turns I could:

Video of suspension
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Keep in mind this rover was not designed with aesthetics in mind, and I'm sure it could be massively shrunk down.

Well, hinges and wheels are good combination for rocket bogie. Nice one.

 

[Space pilot]

Well, hinges and wheels are good combination for rocket bogie. Nice one.

Also stef said
He will never add hinge to game.

 

[Gene]

Also stef said
He will never add hinge to game.

Yeah but you can still make in game hinges like this

 

[Space pilot]

Yeah but you can still make in game hinges like this

But they are huge
And we want small hinge like landing leg has

 

[Space pilot]

Yeah but you can still make in game hinges like this

But they are huge
And we want small hinge like landing leg has

 

[AstronautAdam]

Also stef said
He will never add hinge to game.

Noooo, no no. So NO folding or NO tilting doors, NO circle habitats that can rotate to make "gravity" effect. Stef, please uncall this. And release new version of app.

 

[Space pilot]

UnDeRsTaNdAbLe

 

[Altaïr]

Noooo, no no. So NO folding or NO tilting doors, NO circle habitats that can rotate to make "gravity" effect. Stef, please uncall this. And release new version of app.

It's not that he doesn't want, but apparently it would be very complicated to do, he would have to rehaul the collision system and so on.

 

[AstronautAdam]

Ahhh, so that side of its meaning is ok.

 

[AstronautAdam]

Guys, I know one guy called Zerobricks and he made excellent Mars rover but from Lego-link here https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/172800-tc16-hex-rover/

 

[Space pilot]

Here's the rover with:
3 wheels

 

[Space pilot]

4 wheels

Guess, I will work on design improvement

 

[AstronautAdam]

Good, can you go to small it?

 

[Space pilot]

Me?

Good, can you go to small it?

 

[AstronautAdam]

Yea