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Re: Understanding Mecanum Drive

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Originally Posted by Matt_4505 View Post
I have a technical question regarding programming a mecanum drivetrain. Looking at wpilib one would setup the mecanumDrive_Polar method by using a joystick's Y axis for both the magnitude and direction parameter. How does the method determine if the joystick is moving right or left if it's only sampling the Y axis?
That looks like an error to me. I think the second getY should be getX.
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