Searching For Swerve / Holonomic Drive Idea

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04-04-2016, 13:02

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Re: Searching For Swerve / Holonomic Drive Idea

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Originally Posted by Roboshant

I believe this is a hemispherical omnidirectional gimbaled drive or a HOG drive.

No, according to its name a HOG drive uses a tilting hemisphere that spins in one axis (parallel to the hemisphere's circle), whereas these use a full sphere that can spin in 2 axes.

Swerve (and mecanum) technology has progressed a lot since 2003, so today there are much simpler and better ways of making a true omnidirectional drive compared to this pseudo-omnidirectional drive.

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