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- Mecanum_wheel abstract "The Mecanum wheel is one design for a wheel which can move a vehicle in any direction. It is sometimes called the Ilon wheel after its Swedish inventor, Bengt Ilon, who came up with the idea in 1973 when he was an engineer with the Swedish company Mecanum AB.It is a conventional wheel with a series of rollers attached to its circumference. These rollers typically each have an axis of rotation at 45° to the plane of the wheel and at 45° to a line through the centre of the roller parallel to the axis of rotation of the wheel. A typical configuration is the four-wheeled one of the URANUS omni-directional mobile robot (pictured) or a wheel chair with Mecanum wheels (similar to that pictured). By alternating wheels with left and right-handed rollers, in such a way that each wheel applies force roughly at right angles to the wheelbase diagonal the wheel is on, the vehicle is stable and can be made to move in any direction and turn by varying the speed and direction of rotation of each wheel. Moving all four wheels in the same direction causes forward or backward movement, running the wheels on one side in the opposite direction to those on the other side causes rotation of the vehicle, and running the wheels on one diagonal in the opposite direction to those on the other diagonal causes sideways movement. Combinations of these wheel motions allow for vehicle motion in any direction with any vehicle rotation.The US Navy bought the patent from Ilon and put researchers to work on it in the 1980s in Panama City. The US Navy has used it for transporting items around ships. In 1997, Airtrax Incorporated and several other companies each paid the US Navy $2,500 for rights to the technology, including old drawings of how the motors and controllers worked, to build an omni-directional forklift truck that could maneuver in tight spaces such as the deck of an aircraft carrier. These vehicles are now in production.Tracked vehicles and skid steer vehicles utilize similar methods for turning. However, these vehicles typically drag across the ground while turning and may do considerable damage to a soft or fragile surface. The high friction against the ground while turning also requires high torque engines to overcome the friction. By comparison, the design of the Mecanum wheel allows for in-place rotation with minimal ground friction and low torque.".
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- Mecanum_wheel wikiPageID "3701507".
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- Mecanum_wheel hasPhotoCollection Mecanum_wheel.
- Mecanum_wheel subject Category:1973_introductions.
- Mecanum_wheel subject Category:Mechanisms.
- Mecanum_wheel subject Category:Swedish_inventions.
- Mecanum_wheel subject Category:Wheels.
- Mecanum_wheel type Artifact100021939.
- Mecanum_wheel type Device103183080.
- Mecanum_wheel type Instrumentality103575240.
- Mecanum_wheel type Machine103700963.
- Mecanum_wheel type MechanicalDevice103736970.
- Mecanum_wheel type Mechanism103738472.
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- Mecanum_wheel type Wheel104574999.
- Mecanum_wheel type Wheels.
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- Mecanum_wheel comment "The Mecanum wheel is one design for a wheel which can move a vehicle in any direction. It is sometimes called the Ilon wheel after its Swedish inventor, Bengt Ilon, who came up with the idea in 1973 when he was an engineer with the Swedish company Mecanum AB.It is a conventional wheel with a series of rollers attached to its circumference.".
- Mecanum_wheel label "Mecanum wheel".
- Mecanum_wheel label "Mecanum-Rad".
- Mecanum_wheel label "Roue mecanum".
- Mecanum_wheel label "Колесо Илона".
- Mecanum_wheel sameAs Mecanum-Rad.
- Mecanum_wheel sameAs Roue_mecanum.
- Mecanum_wheel sameAs m.09w5jd.
- Mecanum_wheel sameAs Q490154.
- Mecanum_wheel sameAs Q490154.
- Mecanum_wheel sameAs Mecanum_wheel.
- Mecanum_wheel wasDerivedFrom Mecanum_wheel?oldid=562954769.
- Mecanum_wheel depiction MG_6646.resize.jpg.
- Mecanum_wheel isPrimaryTopicOf Mecanum_wheel.