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Re: Mecanum wear and dirt resistance

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Originally Posted by flameout View Post
What do you mean by "scrubbing"? My understand was that, in mecanum, slip would only occur when applying a large force -- such as accelerating, decelerating, or pushing against something external.

Am I wrong about this?
Scrubbing is sideways motion on a wheel. Take any wheel, hold it on the floor and push it sideways - you'll get wear. When a mecaunum robot is straffing sideways the rollers are scrubbing. You don't even need pure straffing - any time you turn you'll get some scrubbing.