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Originally Posted by efoote868
Using a gyro allows you to do something called "field centric drive". Basically, if the robot is in front of you and you push your joystick forward, the robot moves away from you regardless of how it is spun.
In effect, the robot has no front.
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Any ideas on how to program this? I have
some previous experience with LabView, but I haven't the faintest idea of where to even start with this. Not to mention we don't have a gyro to work with...
Although, we may just end up having a more traditional robot with a front and back. The field centric drive and encoder-based correction sounds more like something to do when we have had more experience with mecanum. I think that four motors with mecanum wheels would be a good starting point, and simply adjust for the lack of a perfect straight line by hand.