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Re: Searching For Swerve / Holonomic Drive Idea

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Originally Posted by CalTran View Post
1717, 973, 16, and other swerve teams have done it before. It's possible, but as said, requires an absurd amount of coordination.
I've also done it numerous times with omni wheel based drives[1]. With a gyro it's fairly simple actually. Ether has posted enough of the math at this point that it's not bad at all. If you prefer to derive it yourself it's some basic trig.


[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW6fR-bQFgI In this video the driver is simply commanding the direction to go (field centric) and a rotation rate. The robot figures out everything else. No coordination needed, this was, I think, Brando trying it out for the first time.
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