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UGV Rover/Crawler, our project start but ....

Posted by Bernard Michaud on February 9, 2011 at 11:00am

After waiting for so long (4 month), we finaly got a good deal on a vehicule that would permit experimentation.

We were looking for volume to accomodate the electronics and possible new hardware (FPV robot arm).

There it is, fresh from the box.....

Then.... we tried to make it move.

Desaster !

Noisy and loose slipping gears so ........ back to the seller.

Will keep you posted

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Kartik Jangam September 20, 2011 at 6:47pm

Where was that tracked platform that you found was too bumpy? Cause we are doing an UGV project in college and are looking for an appropriate platform like that...
Ron Jacobs February 11, 2011 at 4:40pm

Very nice toy.
Bernard Michaud February 11, 2011 at 8:50am

Interesting video in the sens that it talks about the principles that we will have to deal with.

Scaling all of this down the 1/5th scale or smaller, should be DIY extreme pleasure.

Thanks for this lead.

Bernard
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Martint BuildYourOwnDrone.co.uk February 11, 2011 at 7:14am

Hi Bernard,

Sorry, I did not mean as the "solution" more as has anyone looked at these, they seen to have good ground crawling abilities from the box, I would think that the chassis used in that model may give some assistance seeing how it works very well out of the box.

"Ground craft" is not something I have looked into a great deal.
Now if our budget was a little bigger maybe we could try for one of these:

Regards

Martin
Bernard Michaud February 11, 2011 at 6:05am

I would call this video, extreme crawling.

Not that it is not impressive but, the situations our ArduRover control truck will have to deal with would be different.

We would be looking at identifiyng immediate terrain obstacles and safe surfaces to advance on.

How rough of a terrain could be delt with in a 100% ArduRover GUV will be very interesting to discover.

Bernard
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Martint BuildYourOwnDrone.co.uk February 11, 2011 at 3:29am

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Has anyone looked at these yet?
Ron Jacobs February 10, 2011 at 5:49pm

Any update on what was wrong with your RC4WD vehicle?
Bernard Michaud February 10, 2011 at 6:15am

We did have a look at it but the Crawler was more appropriate for the complete project.

We did examine this tank basic structure .. but no despite the available payload volume.

The ride of a track vehicule is finaly to rough.

Bernard
AUQ February 10, 2011 at 2:16am

Have/would you considered using a tracked vehicle instead of a crawler?
Bernard Michaud February 9, 2011 at 5:29pm

John.

Thanks for the comments

I could not resist having a look at the RedCat 1/8 crawler. Wow was I supprise !

It is, in deed, seriously comparable to the RC4WD one.

I have yet not enough hand's one experience to compare. From what I can see, If you take out the price of the pendulum weels and some nice to have luxury, the RedCat is still 3 times cheaper.

Proving that it worth shoping.

There are still some caracteristics that are special to the RC4WD and we will need them for our comming ptoject.

Bernard

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