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Re: Mecanum Holonomic Drive Setup

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
If weight is reasonably balanced and drivetrain friction is well managed, it's perfectly reasonable to control a mecanum drivebase without any sort of sensor feedback on the robot. If I were building one right now, I'd add a gyro before any other sensors. That would let me use closed-loop control on direction at a high level, and not worry about commanding and maintaining specific motor speeds.
But where is this gyro positioned? What type of gyro is used?
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