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Re: Arcade mecanum drive

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Originally Posted by 2611.Shooter View Post
All I was saying was to control rotation with a second joystick, instead of axis 4 on the first joystick. this ... lets you do stuff like this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM8cixsE5fo
I could be wrong, but I would guess that field-oriented-control is what lets the 488 robot do what you saw in that video. You could just as easily do that with a single joystick with the rotation controlled by the twist axis if the translation commands (Y and X) are field-oriented.


of a 3-axis joy
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