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Re: Mecanum Drivetrains

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post
Interesting, every mecanum drive system I saw that year (excepting 357) had issues with the bridge. What wheels? Did you do anything to the rollers? What sort of feedback did you have?
Andymark wheels, standard, no feedback whatsoever. We were planning on using our traction wheels (octocanum), but found that by and large we just didn't need to. (We did use them to "downshift" to push other robots up the bridge, but we had no issues getting ourselves up/down the bridge.)
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