OK, much easier than I was thinking.. Andy Pugh wrote: > 2009/11/4 Dave <[email protected]>: > > >> How does a differentially steered robot work? Is that some type of >> harmonic drive? >> > > I suspect he just means a robot with separate controls for the left > and right wheels. For RobotWars use people generally use a radio > control with a "V-tail" mixer to convert forwards/backwards/steer into > separate left-right mixing. I suspect that the aim here is to do > something on-board. > > Incidentally, one of the UK robotwars robots used a different system, > a differential with a motor in it (powered through slip-rings) that > overlaid a steering input onto the main forwards-backwards. They > seemed unimpressed when I pointed out that that was a daft way of > doing it (driving one half-shaft and reversing the other with a static > motor driving the prop-shaft for steering would have been simpler) > >
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