.. _mpo-500:

MPO-500
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`📥 Download as PDF <https://neobotix-docs.de/hardware/en/MPO-500.pdf>`_

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The mobile robot MPO-500 features four Mecanum wheels which provide an extraordinary manoeuvrability.
Each Mecanum wheel has several independent rollers mounted along its circumference.
The axles of the rollers are rotated at 45° to the wheel's main axle.
This design enables the robot to instantly move into any direction:
**The Mecanum wheels make it truly omnidirectional**.

This kinematics offers a number of interesting advantages over other systems
like Omni wheels or the :ref:`Omni Drive Modules <omnidrive>` of the :ref:`MPO-700 <mpo-700>`:

* Mecanum wheels have proven themselves worldwide since 1973,
* they require only a very simple and robust drive system,
* they allow instantaneous motion without alignment and
* the required control software is very simple.

These extraordinary features have made Mecanum wheels a very popular solution especially in robotics research.



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