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Offseason Drive Idea, Refined

By: Oblarg
New: 21-04-2014 17:44
Updated: 21-04-2014 19:10
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Offseason Drive Idea, Refined

A bit more playing around in CAD, and now I have something I'd feel comfortable making.

This is a drive I've been toying around with for an offseason project. The goal was to design a 6WD with direct-driven center wheels that offers easy access to both the wheels and the belts (as opposed to a WCD design, where you've got trivial access to the wheels but changing the belts is a pain), and which saves center space by floating the CIMs over the drive wheels.

The general idea is essentially the same as the AM14U: direct-driven center wheel, with belts to outer wheels with dead axles. However, the AM14U design has a few unfortunate flaws; most notably, access to the center wheel is a PITA because you have to remove either the entire side plate (ugh) or the entire gearbox (even more ugh) to get access to the end of the gearbox's output shaft. To solve this, this design uses a coupled output shaft; the gearbox shaft is cut short and attached to a SDP-SI hex sleeve, and the wheel shaft simply is inserted into the hex sleeve. This coupling is contained inside the 2''x1.5'' tube that forms the inner member of the chassis, and is not visible. An additional benefit is that gearbox removal now only requires that you pull the gearbox about an inch inwards after removing the frame; on a standard WCD or an AM14U, you have to pull the gearbox the entire length of the output shaft.

The gearboxes are essentially standard WCP 3CIM dog shifters; I simply copy-pasted the important geometry from their plates and toyed around with the top of it so that the CIMs interface with the cluster gear from the 3CIM single-speed gearbox. The lower half of the assembly is pretty much untouched, except that, on recommendation from a previous commenter, I depressed one of the bearing holes so that the hex bearing on the output shaft protrudes 1/8'' past the plate to ensure proper alignment of gearbox and framing member.

Chassis would be held together with 3/16 steel rivets (not shown; I'm not devoted enough to add bolts and rivets to my CADs).

I'd love any feedback you can give.

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22-04-2014 19:20

MarkoRamius1086


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Definitely take the time and meticulously draw out the shafts and whatever spacing system you will use. All the correct hardware and tolerances. You (or whoever assembles it) will kick you in the butt when it comes together and there are issues with spacing. Looks good otherwise!

Tip: When you go to rivet it put the shafts and the bearings in first. This will ensure that you do not have alignment issues with your rigid frame



22-04-2014 21:20

Oblarg


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Originally Posted by MarkoRamius1086 View Post
Definitely take the time and meticulously draw out the shafts and whatever spacing system you will use. All the correct hardware and tolerances. You (or whoever assembles it) will kick you in the butt when it comes together and there are issues with spacing. Looks good otherwise!
Already done; spacing uses the stock VexPro delrin hex spacers with a bit of wiggle room added in the gusset spacing.

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Tip: When you go to rivet it put the shafts and the bearings in first. This will ensure that you do not have alignment issues with your rigid frame
Will do.



22-04-2014 21:38

PingPongPerson


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I cannot see how close to the frame perimeter the motors are, but I would be wary of the wires coming out of the back of the CIMs getting damaged by another robot ramming you. Other than that it looks really solid. Nice work!



22-04-2014 22:01

Oblarg


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I cannot see how close to the frame perimeter the motors are, but I would be wary of the wires coming out of the back of the CIMs getting damaged by another robot ramming you. Other than that it looks really solid. Nice work!
I'd have to double-check the CAD, but I believe there's about a half inch of clearance.

I might move them in a bit anyway to allow for wider wheels.



22-04-2014 22:18

DampRobot


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It seems like your kind of converging on what 971 does, except with tubing instead of sheetmetal. They have their CIMs over their wheels, but also actually make the output of their gearbox a gear that connects to a gear on their center wheel, but externally to their gearbox. That way, they can take the gearbox off without taking the center wheel out, or take any belts off.



22-04-2014 22:27

Oblarg


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Here are a couple more pics, if anyone's interested.

View from bottom, with transparent tube to show shaft coupling:

http://imgur.com/G6Z9AdW

View of whole chassis from top:

http://imgur.com/dGeCOPH



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