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Back wheel construction advice
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:36:33 GMT
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Does anybody have any good construction ideas for the back wheel of a 3
wheeled robot, the wheel is mainly for balance, and it will have to rotate
freely, the front wheels have separate motors so the back wheel is dragged,
the robot can rotate whithout moving forward.
thanks for any advice
Teoman Naskali
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 | | RE: Back wheel construction advice
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| I have found myself needing a similar freely-rotating wheel, and have had only marginal success with a caster type of arrangement. I've been daydreaming about a ball bearing arrangement (think of a mouse ball) but this would probably take us out of (...) (22 years ago, 16-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Back wheel construction advice
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| Teoman Naskali wrote: > Does anybody have any good construction ideas for the back wheel of a 3 > wheeled robot, the wheel is mainly for balance, and it will have to rotate > freely, the front wheels have separate motors so the back wheel is (...) (22 years ago, 16-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Back wheel construction advice
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| I have a few caster designs that I like to use. Here are two links to robots that I have designed for a standard robot competition. Both of these use similar caster wheel designs. See steps 13-15 of: (URL) steps 9a and 9b of: (URL) Jansson (22 years ago, 17-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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