pic: OmniSwerve chassis Bottom View and Concept Discussion

[Cothron Theiss]

Originally Posted by Scott Kozutsky

This was entirely my own project and an excellent opportunity to brush up on CAD. I figured Chief Delphi posters in general would also enjoy this kind of thought exercise but apparently not.

There's never any reason to not mess around with CAD for practice, so it's awesome that you've done this. I'm hoping to post several oddball/silly designs over the next month, as soon as I get off my butt and get to CAD-ing. But great job on getting the ball rolling with off-season designs.

As for the design itself, it might be really interesting to lock the back two wheels in the forward direction, and then replace the forward omni wheel with some sort of traction wheel with VERY high amounts of scrub (or even a small tread module). Theoretically, if the forward steering module has enough friction against the carpet, powering the motor on the front steering module would actually turn the entire chassis in relation to the front wheel. With the front wheel pointed in a different direction from the back wheels, it might steer similar to a front wheel drive car, but without the need for a differential since the back Omni's can be powered at different speeds.