pic: 2011 "Nova" Swerve Drive (Front)

[=Martin=Taylor=]

Originally Posted by Jedward45

The DP is 32. They are a Boston Gear set. The Mounting Distances are up to spec with Boston Gear's technical drawings. Also, the hub of the Gear inserts into the wheel assembly.

The steering sprockets sit on a 1" OD Aluminum tube (3/4" ID). This tube is machined from a 2" diameter Aluminum rod because at the base of the 1" tube, a 2" mounting plate attaches to the rest of the chassis (Dark grey).

Hope that clears things up

Wow. I once spent a long time designing a drive just like this. I have to say, this is a very good design!

I gave up on my design because I was worried about turning the modules. The very closest I was able to move the wheels was 4" wide. The effectiveness of a swerve is limited by how fast the modules can be rotated, and with only the window motors for rotation I figured this might be difficult with such wide wheels.

My next and final swerve design was a 45* module like in the 1625 teaser. In the end, this design wound up being more complicated to make then a conventional module and was only slightly smaller so I abandoned this too.

Its cool seeing all the new swerve designs on CD. I wonder how many teams will use swerve next year...

[Peyton Yeung]

Originally Posted by =Martin=Taylor=

Its cool seeing all the new swerve designs on CD. I wonder how many teams will use swerve next year...

I don't know if we will use it next year but team 45 has started thinking about adding swerve to the list of drive trains we can construct.

4wd
6wd
tread
ball drive
swerve?