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Originally Posted by ehfeinberg
I don't really understand why you need to power each wheel independently if you want to get decent benefits. Could you please elaborate?
The reason we were thinking of driving two wheels together is because our team has very little access to cnc and advanced manufacturing techniques. If we were to drive all wheels independently we would have to use 4 pre-made gear boxes. By chaining wheels togeather we have half the weight and half the complexity.
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Well let me ask, what kind of benefits does your team want to get out of a swerve drive as opposed to a normal tank-style drivetrain?
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11-09-2012, 20:16
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