Modular Sensor Vehicle Elevation for Fast Rigid Deployment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for transporting and deploying sensor vehicles face challenges in custody and transportability, position during transport, volume occupied during transport, deployment time, height to lift sensors, and rigidity of the sensor position, which are critical for maintaining operational effectiveness.
Innovation Solution
A modular container system with three interconnected modules: a vertically translating module, a horizontally rotating module, and a constraint exchange module, allowing sensor vehicles to be positioned and elevated efficiently, ensuring they remain in the same configuration during transport and operation, with automated safety interlocks to prevent collisions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If sensor vehicles are placed in a protected container during transport, then custody and transportability are improved, but volume occupied during transport increases
Solution Approach 1:
The sensor vehicle is nested within the container structure, with the detection device positioned inside the protected enclosure during transport. This allows the sensor vehicle to be custodially secured while minimizing the volume occupied by integrating it into the container's internal space rather than adding external volume.
2Length of moving object
If sensor vehicles are elevated to high positions for detection, then detection range is improved, but deployment time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The sensor vehicle is pre-positioned within the container at a location that allows for rapid elevation to the detection position. The container design includes pre-integrated lifting mechanisms and structural support elements that enable quick deployment without requiring complex assembly or multiple operational steps, thereby reducing deployment time while achieving the required elevation height.
3Stability of the object's composition
If sensor vehicles are fixed rigidly for operational stability, then rigidity of position is improved, but adaptability of positioning decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The positioning system incorporates adjustable and reconfigurable elements that allow the sensor vehicle to be rigidly fixed at multiple different positions and orientations. The container includes movable mounting structures and adjustable support mechanisms that provide stable, rigid positioning when needed while maintaining the capability to reconfigure for different detection scenarios, thereby achieving both rigidity and adaptability.
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AI summary
A modular system for the shelter, transport, positioning and elevation of sensors including a first module (A, I) and a second module (B, II) side by side and cooperating with each other. The first module operates as a functional block with vertical translation and the second module operates as a functional block with rotation/horizontal translation. Each module comprises a lifting means and together the two modules enable a sequential lifting of the sensor means in two phases. In one embodiment, there is also a third interfacing module (C) responsible for the switching of functional blocks included in the first and/or second module.