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Omniwheel for my three wheeled omnidirectional robot
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updated August 13, 2024

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This is an omniwheel I use on a threewheeled omnidirectional robot. The wheel is as simple as I could think of. It is a lot of work to print and assemble three of them, and you would probably be better of buying them ;-)

Still, I had a lot of fun printing them, and if you want to make this model too, here are some pointers from my experience with making them.
 

Plates
I printed the plates with a 0.4 nozzle and a layer height of 0.2 (using the “0.2mm QUALITY” preset). There is no support needed to print them.

Rollers
I used TPU PLA to print the rollers. This is actually the hardest part of the model. The TPU is very stringy and I ended up printing them one by one because of that.
I used a nozzle of 0.4mm and layer height of 0.2mm and for infill I choose 80% concentric infill. This gave a reasonable hardness while still keeping some of the flexibility of the TPU.

Roller Sleeves
I first tried to print the rollers without the sleeve but because the TPU is not printing as smooth a standard PLA the rollers would not turn smoothly on the axis. So I decided to print PLA sleeves to insert into the rollers. 

The sleeves are printed with a 0.25mm nozzle and a layer height of 0.10mm. The slicer will report printing instability, but I had no problem printing them without a brim. As long as you make sure you use the smooth build plate and have it cleaned with alcohol, it will work out.

Separator
Very easy part, nothing special to mention, used a 0.4mm nozzle and 0.2mm layer height

Assembly
The sleeves fit snuggly into the rollers, I pressed them partly in by hand and then used a small hammer to get them fully in. They are designed to protrude a little bit.

For the axes, I used 2mm steel rod that I cut in pieces of about 23mm

The outer- and inner plates are fixed together with small m2 screws and hold the axes of the rollers.

The assembled plates are separated with the separator part. As hub I used a Pololu 3mm hub. 

The plates, the separator and hub are then fixed together with four m3 screws of 20mm length.

 

Model origin

The author marked this model as their own original creation.

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