A NOVEL SPHERICAL WHEEL DRIVEN BY OMNI WHEELS
A novel combination of Omni wheel and spherical wheel unit (CWWU) is presented in this paper, and its operating principle is basically a spherical wheel driven by two perpendicular pairs of Omni wheels. Thus, a CWWU base robot can perform the static and dynamic balancing function that a single wheel with inverse mouse-ball drive developed by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) can achieve. The previous rolling/balancing machines cannot immediately drive in a given direction without first re-orienting the drive mechanism. The major feature of the presented CWWU base robot and the CMU robot is that both of them can move directly in any direction. As compared the Omni wheel base robot with the proposed one, the main drawback of the Omni wheel robot is the cancellation of opposite portion of the driving forces. Moreover, the CWWU base robot has several exclusive features which can resolve some problems inherited in the CMU robot Especially, the simultaneous demand of both a high-friction and low-friction material for the spherical ball is a compromise needed to make for the CMU robot, but not for the proposed CWWU base robot.
CWWU Omni wheel Spherical wheel
CHIA-WEN WU CHI-KUANG HWANG
Institute of Engineering and Science, Chung Hua University, Hsing-Chu, Taiwan, R.O.C. Dept.of Electrical Engineering, Chung Hua University, Hsing-Chu, Taiwan, R.O.C.
国际会议
2008 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics(2008机器学习与控制论国际会议)
昆明
英文
3800-3803
2008-07-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）