Fabrication and Simulation of Mecanum Wheel
for Automation
International Journal of Innovations In Engineering and Science, 1 (1):
22-27 (July 2016)Abstract
Today, Industrial, Automotive and technical
application of mecanum wheel drive is continuously
gaining importance. This type of drive using mecanum
wheel will be the future of industrial application,
transportation and many more commercial purposes. So in
this respect our paper discusses about a new type of
automated drive using mecanum wheel that will bring upon
a revolution in the emerging market of AGV‟s, parking
system and some practical industrial application. This paper
introduces an omni-directional drive composed of
mecanum wheel. The term „omni-directional‟ is used to
describe the ability of a system to move instantaneously in
any direction from any configuration. We have fabricated
mecanum wheels using rollers. These rollers are made up
of rubber polymer named Delrin and aluminum is used for
hub. An automated prototype of mecanum drive is
developed using mecanum wheels for material handling.
We are following a particular path demonstrating the
motions followed by mecanum wheel along with an
obstacle detection program for avoiding collision in the
path.