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Re: Crab drive steering

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Originally Posted by compwiztobe View Post
With four wheels in a rectangle and the center of mass in the geometric center of your wheel base, you get the same torque canceling as from a square base. Lots of teams do this with no extra math involved to drive correctly.
The wheelbase and trackwidth do figure into the inverse kinematics.


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The kit optical encoders (and all others) are incremental encoders, meaning they only measure change.
Not all optical encoders are incremental. There are absolute optical encoders.