Rocker-Bogie Linkage

                            {
    "id": "comp_rocker_bogie",
    "name": "Rocker-Bogie Linkage",
    "type": "component",
    "inputs": [],
    "outputs": [],
    "passthru": [],
    "children": [],
    "extends": null,
    "problem": "The terrain does not distribute its problems evenly.",
    "description": "The Rocker-Bogie Linkage is a passive mechanical differential chassis system derived from NASA planetary rover architecture, scaled for terrestrial deployment across sidewalk-grade and off-grid terrain without active servo compensation or high-draw electronic stabilization. The system operates on a split-rocker geometry: the rocker arm spans the front and rear wheel pairs while the bogie sub-assembly pivots independently beneath it, distributing vertical displacement across all contact points simultaneously through mechanical averaging rather than computation. The result is that when one wheel drops into a curb cut, a root heave, or a patch of municipal indifference, the chassis maintains a levelized attitude without asking the battery for permission. Load transfer is passive. Weight distribution is continuous. The system scales from 4-wheel base configuration to 6-wheel and 10-wheel extended train configurations by adding bogie segments to the differential chain, each segment geometrically aware of its neighbors through shared linkage geometry and unaware of everything else, which is the correct amount of awareness for a mechanical linkage. Biomimetic analog: the vertebral column, which has been distributing uneven load across articulating segments for approximately 500 million years without a firmware update.",
    "template": "component"
}