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Re: HELP; moving omni robot to move sideways

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Originally Posted by GeeTwo View Post
Another variant of killough that we played with diagrams o a few years ago had four wheels at the corners of the robot, each aligned with a different side. This should drive similarly to regular killough or mecanum, but be more stable due to the larger wheelbase and not require non-square cuts. See attached image. (Again, we just brainstormed the idea; we never tried to build one.)
Wouldn't this be functionally the same as Killough, just a different geometry for the wheelbase?
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