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2. Omni wheel - Wikipedia

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   Triple Rotacaster commercial industrial omni wheel A simple omni wheel. The free rotating rollers (dark gray) allow the wheel to slide laterally A molded plastic omni wheel Omni wheels or poly wheels , similar to Mecanum wheels , are wheels with small discs (called rollers) around the circumference which are perpendicular to the turning direction.

3. Mecanum wheel - Wikipedia

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   The Mecanum wheel is an omnidirectional wheel design for a land-based vehicle to move in any direction. It is sometimes called the Swedish wheel or Ilon wheel after its inventor, Bengt Erland Ilon (1923–2008), [1] who conceived of the concept while working as an engineer with the Swedish company Mecanum AB, and patented it in the United ...

4. Kiwi drive - Wikipedia

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   Kiwi drive. A Kiwi drive is a holonomic drive system of three omni-directional wheels (such as omni wheels or Mecanum wheels ), 120 degrees from each other, that enables movement in any direction using only three motors. This is in contrast with non-holonomic systems such as traditionally wheeled or tracked vehicles which cannot move sideways ...

5. Caster - Wikipedia

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   A caster is a wheel mounted to a fork, with an optional, additional offset steering joint. An omnidirectional wheel (Mecanum wheel, Omni wheel, or Swedish wheel) is made of a large central hub with many additional smaller wheels mounted along the perimeter such that their axes are perpendicular to the central wheel. The central wheel can rotate ...

6. Killough platform - Wikipedia

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   Killough platform. A Killough platform is a three-wheel drive system that uses traditional wheels to achieve omni-directional movement without the use of omni-directional wheels (such as omni wheels / Mecanum wheels ). Designed by Stephen Killough, after which the platform is named, with help from Francois Pin, wanted to achieve omni ...

7. Omni directional treadmill surpasses Kickstarter in hours - AOL

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   The Omni, an omni directional treadmill that's designed to allow you to walk and run naturally in videogames while using an Oculus Rift headset, has now been officially funded on Kickstarter - in ...