Thread: Propulsion that does not involve driving wheels
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Unread 05-01-2009, 08:48
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Re: Propulsion that does not involve driving wheels
Using the said fan idea is nice, but you would need a skirt to keep an air pillow between the robot and the ground, and to contain the air. This is how current hovercrafts work, and it would provide you with good steering, and manuveurablity, but horrible friction one bump and you would go flying seeing as you have nearly no contact with the ground. Not to mention that you will have trouble picking up balls off the ground, and your skirt will need to be lower then the bumper zone so you can have regulation bumpers.
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