How mush do you kmow about the Mecanum wheel?

| How mush do you kmow about the Mecanum wheel?

The Mecanum wheel is one design for a wheel which can move in any direction.

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Dec 10, 2019

The Mecanum wheel is one design for a wheel which can move 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. Using four of mecanum wheels provides omni-directional movement for a vehicle without needing a conventional steering system. Depending on each individual wheel direction and speed,the resulting combination of all these forces produce a total force vector in any desired direction thus allowing the platform to move freely in the direction of the resulting force vector,without changing of the wheels themselves.