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Re: Mitsubishi Omnidirectional Rally Concept Car
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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall
Also, you'd need a fancy suspension to keep the wheels on the ground. Not the transverse leaf springs described, mystery memory metal or not.
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Actually if you have the memory metal then yes you would be able to keep the wheel on the road because then your leaf springs become an actuator. It's not really the hardest problem one could think of.
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Lift a wheel in a critical corner and you're in big trouble.
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And that's why you design it correctly.  What you are describing goes for a large number of airplanes, satellites, the Segway, and a bunch of other things that would blow up and tear itself to pieces if you do it incorrectly.
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Last edited by Adam Y. : 25-11-2008 at 11:45.
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