This invention uses three fixed-position omniwheels and their associated motors to drive any possible rotation of a sphere. The mechanism is much simpler than mechanisms using multidirectional wheels (i.e., conventional wheels with a mechanism which changes the orientation of their axes). The invention can be applied for rotating surfaces which are approximately, but not perfectly, spherical.
THREE-WHEEL DRIVE FOR SPHERICAL SURFACES
2018-04-19
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B60B VEHICLE WHEELS , Räder für Fahrzeuge |