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Re: Hemispherical Omnidirectional Gimbaled Drive

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Originally Posted by davidthefat View Post
It seems that it would be hard to scale up. Scaling up to FRC level would be fine, but to a commercial level would not be all that easy. What I imagine is that the wheel platform would just snap. It's like trying to stand on one leg and trying to rotate your foot. I think there would be too much torque acting on that to be safe.
Do you have any calculations, even first order estimations, to support this hypothesis? And since when was "commercial level" automatically larger than FRC scale?