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The CMU URANUS Mobile Robot [5] was the first mobile robot with Mecanum wheels built in 1985 and was used for two decades for autonomous navigation research. [6] CMU's "Tessellator" robot, [7] designed in 1992 for servicing Space Shuttle tiles, also used Mecanum wheels. [8] A wheelchair using Mecanum wheels was presented at the 2006 EVER Monaco ...
the BattleBot OMINOUS, shown here with a Kiwi Drive. A Kiwi drive is a holonomic drive system of three omni-directional wheels (such as omni wheels or Mecanum wheels), 120 degrees from each other, that enables movement in any direction using only three motors.
Omni wheels or poly wheels, similar to Mecanum wheels, are wheels with small discs (called rollers) around the circumference which are perpendicular to the turning direction. The effect is that the wheel can be driven with full force, but will also slide laterally with great ease. These wheels are often employed in holonomic drive systems.
English: Mecanum wheel control principle. Movements to any directions: a) Moving straight ahead; b) Moving sideways; c) Moving diagonally; d) Moving around a bend; e) Rotation; f) Rotation around the central point of one axle
Omnidirectional technology (such as Mecanum wheels) can allow a forklift truck to move forward, diagonally and laterally, or in any direction on a surface. An omnidirectional wheel system is able to rotate the truck 360 degrees in its own footprint or strafe sideways without turning the truck cabin.
Stevo Bozinovski and Mihail Sestakov control a mobile robot by parallel programming, using multitasking system of IBM Series/1 computer. [13] 1986: Stevo Bozinovski and Gjorgi Gruevski control a wheeled robot using speech commands. The project was supported by the Macedonian Association for Scientific Activities. [14] 1987
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Those aren't mecanum wheels. Those are omniwheels 129.10.88.73 ( talk ) 17:48, 31 May 2009 (UTC) [ reply ] There was a brief glimpse of a forklift with the Mecanum wheels in the recent (2009) Star Trek movie assisting with loading of stores onto/in the starship.