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Unread 02-05-2007, 17:53
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Re: mecanum vs. omni

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Originally Posted by tseres View Post
o ok....now i get it....so when the robot isnt facing you it still steers like it is.....ya...that would be cool
In addition, field-centric steering is virtually the only way to achieve both rotational and straight lateral motion at the same time ("frisbeeing" in a direction). If the controls are robot centric, the rotational motion will result in the translation to become an arcing motion, rather than a straight line.
See one of the programming related threads I posted earlier.
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