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This paper concerns aspects of the conception, design, building and testing of the Adaptive Suspension Vehicle (ASV) for which Ken Waldron was a Principal Investigator. The ASV was a hexapod vehicle of 7500 lb gross weight that was completely self-contained in terms of motive power and motion control. I (the author) was involved in the project, in turns, as Ken’s graduate student, a university research associate, the chief mechanical engineer on the ASV, and an engineering contractor.
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Vohnout, V.J. (2013). An Excellent Adventure. In: Kumar, V., Schmiedeler, J., Sreenivasan, S., Su, HJ. (eds) Advances in Mechanisms, Robotics and Design Education and Research. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 14. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00398-6_3
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