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No, I'm not OT :-) SHRIMP is the name of a very clever high mobility rover developed by the Autonomous Systems Lab in Lausanne, Switzerland. You can see it here: (URL) ago I made a Lego implementation of it, and only now found the time to put it on (...) (24 years ago, 24-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics) !
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More excellent robots ! Thanks for sharing, Mario : ) I'm sorta bummed that you beat me to the LEGO(R) Shrimp, but I love your drive system and you did leave me some leeway to build a shrimp that can steer.... Xanthra47 "Mario Ferrari" (...) (24 years ago, 25-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Oh no more competition on the shrimp :-( I thought I was going to build the first lego shrimp. Oh well, I guess I can learn from the other models and try to build a better one. Thanks for sharing it with us... Ram ----- Original Message ----- From: (...) (24 years ago, 25-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Like Xanthra47 wrote, there's still room for the first shrimp that can steer :-) On this topic I have some ideas. I would use the four central wheels like tracks, blocking the inner ones in the turn (or slowing down them) while keeping the outers at (...) (24 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The mechanism to steer these two wheels in sync would be a bit tricky, though, considering that the wheels are suspended independently. An easier and more flexible way is to steer the two wheels separately, but attach a rotation sensor to each (...) (24 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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