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Unread 19-02-2011, 17:23
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Re: how to program mecanum wheel drive?

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
Two suggestions:

1) I would think it would be more intuitive if pushing rotJoy to the right would cause clockwise rotation*.

2) You need to normalize the 4 wheel commands, in a way that preserves their holonomic relationship, before sending them to the motors.


* I am assuming that the motors are set up so that issuing a + command causes the wheels to rotate in the "forward" direction

As for #1, yeah, as far as I know everything should be backwards because of the Joystick output. They might need to modify it....

Didn't know about the handy PDF, though. Thanks