Hello Everyone,
This picture has been up on the gallery page for a while now, but I had a question about it.
When the robot moves from side to side, I can understand that going forward and backwards, it would go fairly straight. But when it goes from side to side, wouldn’t the robot slightly change orientation because the side to side movement is only provided by one side?
From a physics point of view, yes it should provide torque around a central axis. From a robotics possibility, I’ve seen some people manage to make a sideways-moving bot with an offcentered wheel(s), so I’d wonder how they get it to work without too much torque that turns the robot.
I’d guess that although it will rotate the bot, the combination of turning and strafing at the same time results in strafing in a line. It might be hard to figure out how to program autonomous with it but driving it would probably be relatively intuitive.