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Re: How to program mecanum wheels with two joysticks

My team is running into a snag with the Holonomic VI. We can run forwards and backwards just fine. We can even turn left and right; no problem. We are having trouble strafing. When we try to do it the robot just stands in place with all 4 wheels spinning. We put it on blocks and noticed that when we ask for a strafe, the front wheels go forward and the back wheels go backward. This does not make sense given the "X" pattern we have set for the wheels.

My programmer did a great job creating his own drive code that works as intended, but does not have the Gyro support the holonomic VI has. So a few questions:

1.Will it be easier to: a: change the NI VI to allow us to strafe correctly or b: integrate the gyro to stabilize our drive base using our own code?

2. how would we go about doing 'A'?

3. how would we go about doing 'B'?
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