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Re: High Strength Powered Steerable pivot wheel
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 23 May 2001 21:21:40 GMT
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IN my design the motor and wheel assembly are one unit. The problem has
been keeping the rotation point stong enough. Hopefully I can play around
with some things this weekend. I will probably order the large turntables
from pitsco. They should help.
In lugnet.robotics, Scot Wilcoxon writes:
> Did you consider rotating the entire motor/wheel assembly?
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> The advantage is that you don't need a drive to go through the rotating
> components, as a flexible wire can deal with the movement.
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> The disadvantage is that it's difficult to make a rotating device which
> can deal with the vertical forces involved in the "shrimp" design.
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 | | Re: High Strength Powered Steerable pivot wheel
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| (...) All the replies were apparently trying to help you to create a steerable wheel with no motors in the assembly. Did you consider rotating the entire motor/wheel assembly? The advantage is that you don't need a drive to go through the rotating (...) (23 years ago, 23-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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