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Re: Omni Directional movement for tank drive.

The common difficult issue for "melty brain" designs is a reliable heading indicator. If the robot doesn't accurately know where it is at least once per cycle, it can't accurately translate.

Even fully functional melty brain designs achieve rotating translation speeds that are very slow compared to the vehicle purely translating. It would be an incredibly easy robot to just juke around.