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Re: Mecanum Advice Request

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Originally Posted by jblay View Post
In what different ways can you control mecanum? The ideas I know of are:

using the joystick that twists.
have a tankdriive setup with one stick that controls strafing.
one stick controls your movement in every direction and the other spins the bot to the direction you point it.
The joy of a holonomic drive system is that it handles exactly like a first person shooter... So if you set up your controls to mimic a FPS, most drivers will already have an intuitive feel for the setup.

...that's what we did last year, anyway, and it worked great!
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