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The free rotating rollers (dark gray) allow the wheel to slide laterally A molded plastic omni wheel. 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 ...
A Mecanum wheel is an omnidirectional wheel design for a land-based vehicle to move in any direction. It is sometimes called the Swedish wheel or Ilon wheel after its inventor, Bengt Erland Ilon (1923–2008), [ 1 ] who conceived of the concept while working as an engineer with the Swedish company Mecanum AB, and patented it in the United ...
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.
The CMU Ballbot, [1] the first successful ballbot, built by Prof. Ralph Hollis [2] (not in picture) at Carnegie Mellon University, USA in 2005 The BallIP, developed by Prof. Masaaki Kumagai [3] at Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan in 2008 The Rezero [4] developed at ETH Zurich, Switzerland in 2010 The Kugle ballbot [5] developed at Aalborg University, Denmark in 2019 The CMU Ballbot [1] with a ...
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The Skatecycle is a device similar to a caster board, but with hubless wheels and a 2-axis twisting axle replacing the function of the casters. The central axle connects two standing platforms surrounded by 9" polyurethane hubless wheels, giving said wheels the appearance of stirrups. In order to move the unit, the rider rotates their feet ...
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He is also at the forefront of Liddiard Wheels, an omnidirectional wheel. [1] He invented an omni-directional tyre, which can move a vehicle sideways. [2] ...