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Re: 2 truck drive train

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Originally Posted by Alex1072
Because this acts like a swerve/crab:

it can go like this:

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or turn in place like this:

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and what I like most: because the turning is controlled by truck rotation, you don't have to control motor output carefully to get it to go straight. Just servo the steering trucks. It will go straight or turn like a car. The differential will minimize wheel slip.
Now draw that again, but get rid of either the right or left set of wheels. I dont think you understood me. A truck does not need to have two wheels is what i was saying. It would be the exact same thing if it had only one wheel, and it would also solve the problem of inner and outer wheels turning at different radii that Rote AUgen mentioned.
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