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Re: Programming Mecanum?

Cartesian/Polar will only work if your wheels are similar to

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or

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I'm not sure in which order though. Our team made the mistake of putting our mecanum wheels straight on all four sides so that's something we had to program around.

@Esther:
I managed to get the drive train programmed with your help. Thanks so much! :D
*edit* my bad, I mean Ether.

Re: Programming Mecanum?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robby Unruh (Post 1019778)

Our team made the mistake of putting our mecanum wheels straight on all four sides so that's something we had to program around.

The wheels are supposed to be "straight", i.e. the plane of all 4 wheels should be parallel to each other.

The rollers on each wheel are at a 45 degree angle to the plane of the wheel, and should form a visual pattern that looks like this when viewed from the top:

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... or this when viewed from the bottom:

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Re: Programming Mecanum?

Oh, alright. I guess I must've misunderstood some posts around here. Thanks for clearing that up.