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Re: Weight on Mecanum or Slide

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Originally Posted by EricH View Post
I don't have data, but I do offer this: an 8-lb tetra, hung a short distance off of a mecanum's frame, produced a very significant arcing motion in strafe mode. It would have been very difficult to deal with via driver control.
Your drive code can automatically compensate for this with a gyro sensor. Pobots Team 353 was kind enough to create a walkthrough for implementing this in LabView: PDF, discussion.

Our team just added this last night and it works well. There's similar C++ and Java examples here: Gyros to control robot driving direction

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