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Re: Mecanum Differential Drive

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Originally Posted by AdamHeard View Post
He was talking about locking the rollers so they can't rotate, in which case traction is equivalent.
He said that "locking the rollers on a mecanum drive does not increase forward traction." I took that to mean, "does not increase forward traction c.f. a mecanum drive with un-locked rollers," which is not true for the reasons I outlined; locking the rollers gives you an immediate traction boost by a factor of sqrt(2).
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