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Originally Posted by jkelleyrtp
It wouldn't be its own drive system, but a dead simple way to do "ocatocanum kiwi."
In a system like this, you would only need to force down the rear omni to put yourself on the appropriate strafe wheels. The forward mechanums would be off the ground just a tiny bit and chained to each side's gearbox.
Therefore you would only need to add one motor, omni, and piston (or one versadrop) and have a butterfly style drive as opposed to this. |
I'm not sure that will be as easy or work as well as you want it to. To get the traction wheels off the ground while keeping the mecanums on the ground, the mecanums will need to be on the front corners of the robot. If you leave them there, they are exposed to being damaged by anything you drive into. If you build an extended front perimeter, it will take time to design and build the front perimeter. At that point, you might be cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I do see the advantages over normal kiwi drive, but I don't really see them over mecanum. And if you want to do octocanum, I feel like it would be easier to do it the usual way.