page_title: Mecanum wheel
hierarchical_section_title: Mecanum wheel
caption_attribution_description: English: "URANUS" omni-directional mobile robot using Mecanum wheels. Designed in 1985 by Gregg Podnar at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie-Mellon University. Used for two decades for robot navigation and other research.
context_page_description: The Mecanum wheel is an omnidirectional wheel design for a land-based vehicle to move in any direction. It is sometimes called the Ilon wheel after its inventor, Bengt Erland Ilon, who came up with the concept while working as an engineer with the Swedish company Mecanum AB, and patented it in the United States on November 13, 1972.
context_section_description: The Mecanum wheel is an omnidirectional wheel design for a land-based vehicle to move in any direction. It is sometimes called the Ilon wheel after its inventor, Bengt Erland Ilon (1923-2008), who came up with the concept while working as an engineer with the Swedish company Mecanum AB, and patented it in the United States on November 13, 1972.
caption: URANUS omni-directional mobile robot
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