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

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

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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

  • 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

  • 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.

     

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    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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    John Arne Birkeland February 9, 2011 at 3:28pm
    I would like to have a CNC aluminum frame as well, but not at the price suggested at RC4WD. I still think the 1/8 RedCat ready to run kit is a better starting point, considering it's $236 and 26.4" from end to end. The alu frame and brushless system is nice to have, but hardly needed to perform any of the planned UGV operations. I have abused my system for some weeks now running it using 3S lipo (11.1V instead of normal 7.2V Nimh). Rolled it over plenty of times, and the only problem has been broken antenna mounts. No mechanical problems at all.
    Good luck with the unmanned system. Lots of interesting challenges in that department. :)
  • Bernard Michaud February 9, 2011 at 2:58pm

    Hi ,John

    Thinking about it, I wonder 1/5 of what ? What are the reference criterias for sizes ?

    I have seen your video ( http://vimeo.com/19329198 ) and from then, we decided to build someting to be driven by  ArduRover.

    Needless to say that we are observing and patiently following what is going one with ArduRover.

    Our Rover/Crawler project is to be Unmaned.

     

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