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Re: 45º Degrees Wheels

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Originally Posted by samfruth View Post
Here's a quick map of which direction the whees need to be spinning in order to move in a desired direction. I can't remember if there is a mechanum VI in LabView or not, but I would just put each motor in as a regular old CIM in the code.
LabVIEW has a Holomic Drive VI that can be configured to "Mecanum Cartesian." If you have a gyro wired into your roboRIO, you can connect the output into the Holonomic Drive VI to have field-centric driving.
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