[Arctic_Menace]

I'm helping a friend develop a military sentry for his summative project for Engineering. Also, as a side-project, we are trying to create something akin to an Iron-Man suit. A robotic exo-skeleton design has already been made by students which makes lifting 1000lbs look like a piece of cake. The problem is that their model is extremely rigid and limited in its movement. On top of that, it's hooked up to a battery that simply cannot be carried into the field.

My friend and I have thus begun designing a new way of implementing this technology without its rigidity and cumbersome power supply. This is where you all come in...

We've come up with a few ideas of our own, but I know that there are people on this site far smarter and knowledgeable than me, and I was wondering if you could donate any thoughts or ideas as to how we could create a more manageable power supply for this exo-suit. The power supply must be carried like a backpack and must be around the same size. Weight is not a terribly concerning issue, since we've used various technologies and techniques that would make carrying a 50-70 lb "backpack" seem like only a few pounds.

Our ideas so far have been to try and harness magnetic energy (theoretically infinite power supply), lithium battery, hydrogen, electric power...

Any and all suggestiosn will be written down and attempted to be applied to our project. Much thanks in advance!

[Red_Eye]

Battery pack?
Why not have every part hold its power?
Tho your question is vague as theres no visual aid to help with the flo of creativity.

[ManifestDestiny]

jus off the top of my head with no real knowledge of what you have here.

I was thinking some where in the line of those backpack leaf blowers. some of them have tiny 8 hp engines and weigh 40 pounds. hook that up to a electric generator, like hybrid cars and bingo you have power!

[Arctic_Menace]

Red_Eye wrote:

Battery pack?
Why not have every part hold its power?
Tho your question is vague as theres no visual aid to help with the flo of creativity.

Well for our "Iron Man" suit side project, the tranquilizer darts are powered by small CO2 canisters, so no worries about that. The taser is a modified version, but it too has its own power supply. Our biggest problem is trying to figure out how to keep a small power supply on the backpack part that will power the articulated robot arm. There's the dilemma...

And I'm working on the visual aids right now...

[Red_Eye]

is going to look like your avatar?

[Arctic_Menace]

Red_Eye wrote:

is going to look like your avatar?

God no.


It's gonna look more like C-3PO from Star Wars Episode I...