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Programming Mecanum Wheels

I have tried searching CD and WPILib for a while now, and tried everything. How do you do mecanum wheel programming?

Re: Programming Mecanum Wheels

Hi! I've dug up a few mechanum links from wpi located here: http://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/...botdrive-class and here: http://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/...-mecanum-drive.

I don't know if they particularly relate to your team's robot, but they will hopefully be useful! My team has done mechanum drivetrain for the two years I have been on the team, so let me know if you have any questions or need more explanation! :)

Re: Programming Mecanum Wheels

Quote:

Originally Posted by michaelyork (Post 1441415)

I have tried searching CD and WPILib for a while now, and tried everything. How do you do mecanum wheel programming?

WPILib RobotDrive.java

Code:

    /**

     * Drive method for Mecanum wheeled robots.

     *

     * A method for driving with Mecanum wheeled robots. There are 4 wheels

     * on the robot, arranged so that the front and back wheels are toed in 45 degrees.

     * When looking at the wheels from the top, the roller axles should form an X across the robot.

     *

     * This is designed to be directly driven by joystick axes.

     *

     * @param x The speed that the robot should drive in the X direction. [-1.0..1.0]

     * @param y The speed that the robot should drive in the Y direction.

     * This input is inverted to match the forward == -1.0 that joysticks produce. [-1.0..1.0]

     * @param rotation The rate of rotation for the robot that is completely independent of

     * the translation. [-1.0..1.0]

     * @param gyroAngle The current angle reading from the gyro.  Use this to implement field-oriented controls.

     */

    public void mecanumDrive_Cartesian(double x, double y, double rotation, double gyroAngle) {

        if(!kMecanumCartesian_Reported) {

            UsageReporting.report(tResourceType.kResourceType_RobotDrive, getNumMotors(), tInstances.kRobotDrive_MecanumCartesian);

            kMecanumCartesian_Reported = true;

        }

Re: Programming Mecanum Wheels

I have no idea why this code is not working, any ideas, I have been stressing about it for the past two hours. :ahh:

Code:

        double magnitude = driveStick.getMagnitude();

        double direction = driveStick.getDirectionDegrees();

        double rotation = otherStick.getTwist();

        RobotDrive driveTrain = new RobotDrive(3,4,5,6);

        while (isEnabled() && isOperatorControl()) {

                

                driveTrain.mecanumDrive_Polar(magnitude, direction, rotation);

                Timer.delay(0.005);

        }

This is located in teleopPeriodic() in Robot.java.

Any ideas?

Re: Programming Mecanum Wheels

You probably want to fetch the current values from your joystick *inside* the while(isEnabled && isOperatorControl()) loop. Otherwise you take the reading once and keep sending them over and over.