Mobile robotics: how to specify castor wheels ?

Dear all,

if you are a mobile robot designer for indoor applications on flat floors, you are much likely to be applying castor wheels and what follows is a short guide to specifying these castors - and a link to more thorough advice on the Ross Handling website.

http://www.machinebuilding.net/ta/t0126.htm

This is also a good occasion to introduce an interesting website which very valuable from the technical point of view but you will find nothing scientific there.

http://www.machinebuilding.net

And also to see where you can get a large selection of wheels, bearings, castors and fittings:
http://www.rosshandling.co.uk/index.asp

Good reading,

Luc Rolland

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[castors]

Building a mobile robot is not the complicated, technological
feat that many anticipate it can be. Even someone with no robot-building experience and no particular technical knowledge can create a mobile robot, and the procedure can even be accomplished
using spare parts lying around your house.