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Re: Truly omnidirectional omniwheels?

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Originally Posted by Exotria
I don't know about your team, but our motors use an autolocking system so that it's harder for us to be pushed. Thus, whenever a motor isn't receiving instructions, it locks itself up, so if certain motors are moving(say, two matching sides in a hex drivetrain design) while others aren't, the wheels wouldn't be rolling to go along with the miniwheels. Omniwheels wouldn't be very omni in that situation. And that's the point of my idea.
I guess I still don't understand the point. Are you trying to make an omniwheel that rolls freely in every direction? A standard omniwheel does that. Are you trying to make an omniwheel that rolls freely in every direction even when it's prevented from turning around its main axis? That would work exactly against your reason for locking the drive shaft in the first place.