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Re: The Hardest Drive System To Program:

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Originally Posted by Jimmy the Kidd View Post
Last year, the team thought it was a good idea to combine Ackerman and omnidrive. We never got the programming right. Ever. We were supposed to be able to switch back and forth, but the omni drive was too sensitive or sometimes wouldn't even work.
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Are you referring to an omni drive using omni wheels, or mecanum, or swerve?
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Omni wheels.
I'm trying to understand what you mean by "Ackerman" in the context of an omniwheel vehicle.

Ackermann is a very specific type of front-wheel steering, used by automobiles, in which the vehicle turns around a point lying on the line which is colinear with the axles of the rear wheels.

Since an omni-wheel vehicle is holonomic, you certainly could mimic this behavior, but why would you want to? An omni-wheel vehicle can be given a "car-like" driver interface simple by disabling the strafe command - and using only rotate and fwd/rev commands.