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Unread 04-01-2007, 17:07
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Re: Tank tread

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery View Post
I'm curious to why you would use asymetric motor placement in a holonomic system like that. Also, I'm curious as to why you chose weaker motors for the "drive wheels" (even though the CIM Mini-bike motors are larger than the regular CIM motors, the regular are actually a more powerful motor).
Actually, I was curious why one would put any motors on the omni wheels at all. In the pictured design they are actually only used for balance and could not move the robot sideways anyway since the drive wheels do not appear to be omni so why power them at all? The robot can simply turn like a two wheel differential drive but not actually move omni-directionally in a true holonomic sense.