Performance of  Wheel-Typed Vehicle with Crawlers in Between Front and   Rear    Wheels on Soft Ground

Ryosuke Eto; Tomoaki Satomi; Hiroshi Takahashi

doi:10.20965/jrm.2014.p0261

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JRM Vol.26 No.2 p. 261

doi: 10.20965/jrm.2014.p0261

(2014)

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Performance of Wheel-Typed Vehicle with Crawlers in Between Front and Rear Wheels on Soft Ground

Ryosuke Eto, Tomoaki Satomi, and Hiroshi Takahashi

Department of Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, 6-6-02 Aramaki, Aoba, Sendai 980-8579, Japan

Received:

October 30, 2013

Accepted:

December 25, 2013

Published:

April 20, 2014

Keywords:

crawler, wheel, slip, soil, trafficability

Abstract

A wheeled vehicle with crawlers between the front and back wheels has been developed in order to move swiftly over both soft ground and pavement. Vehicle trafficability on dry sand was evaluated in experiments, which clarified that its trafficability was greater than for wheels on dry sand alone.

Cite this article as:

R. Eto, T. Satomi, and H. Takahashi, “Performance of Wheel-Typed Vehicle with Crawlers in Between Front and Rear Wheels on Soft Ground,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.26, No.2, p. 261, 2014.

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References

[1] E. Teramoto, Y. Yabe, and H. Nirei, “Evaluation of Running Performance of Manure Spreader with Four Wheels Drive and Intermediate Crawler Unit,” The Japanese Society for Terramechanics, Vol.30, pp. 39-43, 2009.

[1] [1] E. Teramoto, Y. Yabe, and H. Nirei, “Evaluation of Running Performance of Manure Spreader with Four Wheels Drive and Intermediate Crawler Unit,” The Japanese Society for Terramechanics, Vol.30, pp. 39-43, 2009.