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Re: Robots tilt

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Originally Posted by M. Krass
This is called camber and it's present on most (if not all?) cars as well. Varying the camber can affect the over- or understeer of the car, but I can't see it having any use on a robot that skid steers.
What about 116's beautiful implementation of camber (I think that would fit the definition)? They used an extreme angle for their 4 omni wheels in two axis per wheel making the point of the omni in contact with the ground closer to the corners of the physical machine thus providing a much greater footprint for their wheelbase.

I know the middle wheel drop has been established as the thread's intent. I just thought I would throw this out there.
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