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Re: More Finesse as a Driver

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Originally Posted by cjster View Post
We have mecanum wheels and one motor per wheel, 4 wheels. The throttle and strafing is the same stick and turning the robot is the other stick.
I would recommend scaling down the default mecanum turn rate in the code. I found that multiplying the rotation value by 0.4 worked for us. Anything more had us accidentally throwing totes. It increases your robot's stability by a lot without reducing your overall mobility. Also, if you don't use field-oriented drive, it will help a lot to simplify driving so you can better focus on being precise.
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