AIRCRAFT PART WITH ROBOT ARM

摘要

An aircraft part, such as a cockpit or cabin, comprising a support structure and a robot arm (7). The robot arm has a proximal end (10) attached to the support structure and a distal end adapted to hold a electronic device (8). An actuation system is arranged to drive the robot arm so that the distal end of the robot arm moves relative to the support structure. A memory contains data, and a controller is programmed to drive the actuation system according to the data in the memory in order to move the distal end of the robot arm to a position determined by the data in the memory. The robot arm comprises a "snake-arm" with three or more links connected by a series of two or more joints, each joint connecting together a respective adjacent pair of the links and permitting relative rotation between the adjacent pair of links. The actuation system is arranged to move the distal end of the robot arm by causing a relative rotation between the links about their joints.