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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