DARPA is developing wheels that are being transformed on the go

DARPA is developing wheels that are being transformed on the go



Cross-country traffic can be a very difficult task, requiring a lot of compromises. A vehicle equipped with caterpillars will cope with such a task without any problems, however the caterpillar drive becomes inefficient when from any marshes you finally leave on a clean road. In turn, engineers and designers from the Office of Advanced Research Projects of the US Department of Defense (better known in our region as DARPA) do not believe that it is necessary to make a difficult choice in favor of this or that method.



In collaboration with the Carnegie Mellon University, DARPA is working on the reconfigurable wheel technology (RWT), which allows you to change the usual round wheels to a crawler track (and back) right on the go. On several fragments of the video below you can see how the system allows you to change part of the suspension of the car in just two seconds. For this, one does not even need to stop.


The development of RWT is part of a series of research projects by DARPA Ground X-Vehicle Technologies in the field of vehicles used in difficult conditions. Here, for example, the development of medium-engine electric vehicles with increased speed and maneuverability, as well as the study of technologies of multi-mode suspensions, allowing to travel at a very high speed even on the bumpiest roads.

In addition, DARPA is developing technologies aimed at increasing the level of review and awareness of drivers of these paramilitary vehicles: virtual screens around the perimeter of the cabin with support for 3D glasses, allowing you to see the situation around the car; a system of virtual overlays on the windshield, showing the most optimal and safe future path and much more.

In history, there are many cases when technologies originally developed for military purposes after some time were part of everyday life. As for transforming on the move wheels, then in your urban hatchback or sedan, they, unfortunately, will not appear soon. DARPA has not yet completed their creation. Now only initial tests are carried out. Nevertheless, in the future such a technology could be useful not only to summer residents, lovers of hunting and fishing, but also to organizations engaged in the search and rescue of people in emergency situations, where it may be necessary to travel in a very difficult terrain.

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