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Re: Tri-star wheels [was: Re: [Woefully off topic] Feel the .sig Luke...]
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 14:33:24 GMT
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Brian B. Alano <alano@SPAMLESSkiva.net>
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I briefly experimented with a stair-sized tri-star wheel. I discovered it would take
a lot of power and a lot of Legos to make it work (the Tri-wheel radius must be
greater or equal to the height of the stair's riser plus the radius of each tyre and
the vehicle's body length needs to be at least twice the Tri-star wheel radius to
keep it stable and to keep the front and back wheels from interfering with each
other) I didn't completely abandon the idea, but I *did* decide it would be easier
to have two robots, one on each level of my house, rather than one robot which can
climb stairs.
Oh, I guess if you don't *have* back wheels you eliminate the need for a lot of
Legos, but you'll still have to find a way to get enough leverage to climb.
Doug Weathers wrote:
> in article 85256896.00771B64.00@aamta02.avid.com, lego-robotics@crynwr.com
> at lego-robotics@crynwr.com wrote on 3/2/00 1:38 PM:
>
> >
> > I'm thinking about how to design a machine that can climb real-live household
> > stairs - as
> > well as move about flat surfaces. I've seen designs for robots that can climb
> > obstacles, but
> > not as big as a step. I'm thinking of something along the lines of a six
> > wheeled
> > robot.
> > Two Y shaped ferris wheel thingys with a wheel at the end of each spoke (two
> > wheels in
> > contact with the ground at any one time). When the robot detects a stair or
> > obstacle, it
> > could shift its weight and rotate the Y forward. Has anyone seen anything like
> > this ?
> >
> > Critically, I think the centre of gravity must be higher than the step for
> > this
> > to work.
> >
> > bad ascii art:
> >
> > 1 O 2 O 3 O
> > | \ |
> > O ___ O--O O
> > / \ | | ___ / \
> > O O| O| O O
> > robot obstacle -------
> >
> > -Simon
> >
> >
>
> Actually, that's a very nice piece of ascii art describing something called
> the tri-star wheel. I saw my first example of this on a vehicle from a
> cheesy movie called "Damnation Alley", adapted from a story by Roger
> Zelazny. The vehicle was real (except for the missile launcher :). It
> steered by bending in the middle, and at one point was seen crossing a lake
> - the tri-star wheels acted like paddlewheels.
>
> I've been interested in building one for some time but have never actually
> sat down and tried it yet. My current robot project has four-wheel drive
> and steers by bending in the middle, so if I just stick tri-star wheels on
> it....
>
> I also recall seeing a baby stroller with tri-star wheels. You could just
> roll it right over curbs and the like.
>
> There were a couple of web sites that discussed creating tri-star wheels
> using Lego, but they both seem to be gone and I can't find where they might
> have gone. Wait... there's one of them!
>
> http://www.visi.com/~dc/
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Doug
>
> --
> Doug Weathers, http://www.rdrop.com/~dougw
> Portland, Oregon, USA
> Don't spam me - I know how to use http://www.spamcop.net
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