[ODE] Steering and rolling wheels

Nate W coding at natew.com
Fri Feb 14 01:56:01 2003


On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 skjold@cistron.nl wrote:

> About the strange jumping of your robot, the only thing I could guess
> at was that it has something to do with how ODE calculates friction,
> or perhaps it's an oddity about how the wheel collides with the floor
> when you 'roll' and 'steer' at the same time.

Or perhaps the wheels are colliding with the chassis, or with each other?

Do they appear to touch?  If so, is there any code in the collision
callback to prevent contact joints from being created between the wheels
and the chassis?

If not, how about putting some code into the collision callback to see
if such joints are being created?

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Nate Waddoups
Redmond WA USA
http://www.natew.com