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Subject: 
RE: Casters
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 22 Aug 2000 21:21:30 GMT
Original-From: 
John Barnes <{barnes@sensors.com}NoMoreSpam{}>
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>A good point, but wouldn't the effect of torque tend to disappear after the
>initial inertia disappears (i.e., when the robot was no longer accelerating,
>but rather moving at a steady pace).

I suspect that inertia is only small part of the what the motor torque is
having
to work against. I imagine there is a considerable and continuing amount of
friction which could give rise to a noticable difference between the "apparent"
weight on the front and rear casters while the chassis is in motion.

JB



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