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Re: Mecanum Wheels - How do they work?

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Originally Posted by Orion.DeYoe View Post
As for programming, there should be a "holonomic drive" VI in the WPI library VIs section that does the math for mecanum automatically. You have one joystick axis for forward and backward movement, one for strafing, and one for rotation (much like arcade).
This shouldn't be too hard to figure out, then, and I will be looking in LabVIEW Friday.


Also to sketch a rough text-based diagram:
Where "///" represents the 45* rollers of the Mec Wheels.
And "|" "-" represent the Robot's Frame.

|---|------------|---|
|\\\|...............|///|
|....|...............|....|
|....|...............|....|
|....|...............|....|
|///|...............|\\\|
|---|------------|---|

Last edited by Team3763 Adam : 16-01-2014 at 18:40.