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Wikipedia: The Mecanum wheel is one design for a wheel which can move in any direction. It is sometimes called the Ilon wheel after its Swedish inventor, Bengt Ilon, who came up with the idea in 1973 when he was an engineer with the Swedish company Mecanum AB. It is a conventional wheel with a series of rollers attached to its circumference, these rollers having an axis of rotation at 45° to the plane of the wheel in a plane parallel to the axis of rotation of the wheel.
![[A wheelchair using Mecanum wheels]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/IlonWheelchair_s.jpg "A wheelchair using Mecanum wheels")
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![[A Mecanum wheel made by a FIRST Team]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/MG_6646_resize_s.jpg "A Mecanum wheel made by a FIRST Team")
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