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Originally Posted by Aidan H.
Have you encountered any problems consistently strafing (driving in the direction of your forklift) with significant weight being held by the lift (3 or more totes)? I know that was a possible issue with mecanums this year, having uneven weight distribution, but I was curious as your robot would have to always strafe if you wanted to travel forward.
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To elaborate on Kevin's answer, "forward" on our robot isn't the side with the forks (though the field centric drive makes the definition of front vs. side kind of blurry). We load with the robot off to the side of the the human player station and straddle the scoring platform to place stacks, so we're able to drive in the normal direction of the wheels for most of the time that we have a stack. Strafing with a stack comes into play mainly when we're lining up along the length of the scoring platform.