Land Rover 5 Robot Chassis Platform

The chassis features a rugged white plastic body with room to house the included battery holder and some additional electronics. The two powerful motors with 86.8:1 gearboxes are strong enough to lift the weight of the chassis and allow it to achieve speeds as high as 10 in/s (25 cm/s). We offer two versions of the Rover 5: with and without quadrature encoders; the encoders provide a resolution of 1000 counts per three revolutions of the wheel, or 333.33 CPR (counting both rising and falling edges of both encoder channels).

A unique feature of this chassis is the ability to adjust its height—and, therefore, the clearance under its body—by changing the angles at which the gearbox assemblies are mounted on the body. Interlocking teeth on the body and the gearboxes hold them in place and allow you to make adjustments in 5° increments by unscrewing a metal bracket inside the chassis, removing a gearbox, and reinserting it at a different angle. The elastic rubber tracks maintain sufficient tension with several different gearbox angles, allowing the chassis height to vary by nearly 1.5" (3.8 cm)

FEATURES:

1. Durable plastic body
2. 6-AA battery holder included
3. Two brushed DC motors with 210 mA free run and 2.4 A stall current at 7.2 V
4. Maximum speed of 10 in/s (25 cm/s) at 7.2 V
5. Ability to scale inclines limited only by friction
6. Height and clearance can be varied by adjusting gearbox angles
7. Version with encoders features two 333 CPR quadrature encoders (one for each track)

HOW TO USED: 

With only four motor leads and two battery leads, it is easy to interface the chassis with most dual motor controllers and robot controllers. Simply connect the battery holder leads to the controller’s power source and the motor leads to the controller’s motor driver outputs. Each set of motor leads is terminated with a female 3.96 mm pitch, 3-pin JST VH-style connector (the middle pin is not used), which our male premium jumper wires plug into nicely.

The  dual motor controller makes it easy to turn this chassis into a platform that can be controlled by RC signals or serial commands, or you can accomplish the same thing by pairing two of our newer Simple Motor Controllers.

The Rover 5 chassis with encoders has two additional bundles of wires, each containing the leads for the quadrature encoder’s 5 V power (red), ground (black), and signal (white and yellow) connections; the wires are individually terminated with female connectors that mate with 0.1" (2.54 mm) male headers.

RELATED DOCUMENTS:

1. Land Rover 5 Robot Chassis Platform Datasheet

PACKAGE INCLUDES:

1. 1 X Land Rover 5 Robot Chassis Platform