Combined with the actual demand

a highly reliable omni-directional wheel and an omni-directional vehicle with advantages of compact

high load-bearing

high positioning accuracy were established. The omni-directional vehicle with four electric omni-directional wheels that moving and turning in one set

that is

moving and rotation of each wheel are driven by two motors respectively. Several main performance indexes of omni-directional vehicle such as omnidirectional move function

carrying capacity

kinematic accuracy and emergency reaction ability were experimented. The experiment results showed that the design and development of omni-directional vehicle has achieved the expected targets

and omni-directional vehicle has fulfilled the task with an industrial robot for flexible assembly successfully.