Building Robots With Lego Mindstorms

Unconventional

Vehicles

Solutions in this chapter:

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Creating Your Own SHRIMP

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Creating a Skier

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Creating Other Vehicles

Chapter 16

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Introduction

In the previous chapters, we discussed the two most common propulsion systems,

wheels and legs, and looked into the many details regarding possible implementa-

tion schemes.Actually we didn’t exhaust all the possibilities, so we are going to

describe a few more robotic vehicles suited to very special tasks.

What mainly affects the mobility ...