Thread: Omni vs Mecanum CoF ?
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Re: Omni vs Mecanum CoF ?
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Originally Posted by gpetilli View Post
Looking at the AndyMark specs for their wheels the Coefficient of Friction for the 6" Omni-wheel is 1.0 where as the CoF for the 6" mecanum is 0.7
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Originally Posted by gpetilli View Post
I don't see the connection to why the mecanum CoF is apparently lower than equivalent Omni in forward.
The numbers don't mean anything if you don't know how the tests were conducted.

I suspect the 1.0 number for the omni was tested in the plane of the wheel, not at a 45 degree angle. Someone from AM please correct me if this is not true (I'm sure AM posted their test procedure somewhere but I can't find at right now).