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One of the projects I worked on Dyson School of Design Engineering / Thrishantha Nanayakkara is getting published! We designed a print-in-place compliant wheel that passively transforms when encountering obstacles. Video with more details: Early access paper:
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@ImperialDyson @thrishlab bro reinvented the wheel

@ImperialDyson @thrishlab cool design! in indoor spaces, our robot wheels roll over power cables and the like. wouldn't that snag the wheels here? also, under heavy loads, wouldn't the wheels deform a lot?

@ImperialDyson @thrishlab Thanks! Yes one of the biggest issues we noticed outside was the tendency to snag roots / the back half of obstacles. We experimented with some mitigations but I ran out of time and had to graduate :) Deformation is a concern but stiffness is pretty tunable to the use-case.

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@ImperialDyson @thrishlab my favorite part is how the cart gets stuck every single time when the obstacle high centers the body. it's a cool wheel, though!

@ImperialDyson @thrishlab Thanks! Yeah, the wheel design outperformed our robot design.

@ImperialDyson @thrishlab This is a dope use case for compliant mechanisms! Could def see this being used for rovers or something similar

@pipedream_labs @ImperialDyson @thrishlab Gahhhhh, that’s so cool!

@ImperialDyson A lot of people asked for the STL file. Thomas generously shared the file here. Have fun trying out new ideas:

@ImperialDyson @thrishlab I will love to be a fly in the room where all these ideas are brainstormed, so cool!
