At Tambov Car Repair Plant built a prototype walking tank

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Commissioned by the Ministry of Defense, with the support of a number of enterprises, the Tambov Car Repair Plant built a prototype of a walking tank, which is currently being tested
This prototype weighs 3 tons, and its height is 2.8 meters. It is powered by a diesel engine Yaroslavl plant, which is used to pressurize the hydraulic system and produces electrical energy needed to supply electrical components and assemblies.
The control system walking tank used many kinds of sensors, force sensors, pressure, position and angles, inclinometers. Data from all the sensors and controls the robot converge to the computer module is running Phantom, developed in the center "Skolkovo". Also there have developed specialized software to control the movements of such mechanisms in autopilot mode, which controls the hydraulic actuators 18 six feet of the tank.
Tank can be controlled from the cab using the joystick, and if necessary, it can be controlled remotely by closed channels. Communication protocols are developed in Voronezh Communications Research Institute, especially for these machines.
First implemented in the same management group such machines by one operator. Using the web interface, reminiscent of strategy games, in a closed social network through the Internet "Cheburashka" can be a whole battalion of tanks specify the location and purpose of the relocation task.
All monitoring and control systems have full redundancy. It should be noted that this is only a prototype and no weapons and booking is not provided. This design, according to developers, is one of the most suitable solutions for the movement in the area where can not move neither man nor armored wheeled and tracked.