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Originally Posted by vgdude999
This sound very similar to the octacanum drive, but the traction wheels are switched it. search for the dragonfly on YouTube, I forget which team made it. Search for "dragonfly octacanum" or something like that.
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Close, this drivetrain would be a combination of omnis and mecanums, however it would not use a pneumatic cylinder to shift modules up and down. Instead, the wheels would all be fixed and as the robot rocked from high acceleration or torque it would hit the traction wheels and gain traction. If the rocking worked consistently, this would result in similar performance to a butterfly or octocanum, minus bulky drive modules, pneumatics, and complexity.