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Re: Looking for correct terminology
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:36:59 GMT
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T. Alexander Popiel <popiel@wolfskeep.NOSPAMcom>
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In message: <GzqM67.B2t@lugnet.com>
"Dean Hystad" <dhystad@mn.rr.com> writes:
> Hi All,
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> I built a little robot that has two wheels that are tilted such that instead
> of being parallel to the ground the axles stick up at an angle approximately
> 75 degrees to the ground. Tilting the wheels this way raises the effective
> axis of rotation and makes the robot more stable. I have seen this done
> before with cheap radio controlled toys that roll on two dish shaped wheels,
> but I don't know what to call this configuration. Any ideas??
I believe that that configuration is called 'negative camber'. It
tends to get used on race cars a lot to improve stability through
high speed turns, if I recall correctly.
- Alex
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 | | Re: Looking for correct terminology
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| (...) Wheelchairs, particularly those used for sports like racing and basketball, also use negative camber. They can get pretty extreme too. When I worked for a wheelchair manufacturer, we'd do camber of up to 18 degrees on each wheel. Adrian -- (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Looking for correct terminology
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| (...) I don't know if camber is the correct term to use here. If so, my robot wheels have 75 degrees of camber, and the wheels are cambered in instead of out (the wheelbase is really narrow). It's really a different kind of wheel design. I'm not (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hi All, I built a little robot that has two wheels that are tilted such that instead of being parallel to the ground the axles stick up at an angle approximately 75 degrees to the ground. Tilting the wheels this way raises the effective axis of (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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