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Originally Posted by dtengineering
It sounds like there is an ideal opportunity for you to introduce some cool new wheels to Brazil. The Omni wheels are great for much more than just an omni directional drive... as mentioned above when you put omni wheels on one end of your traditional "tank" drive robot it becomes much, much easier to turn it.
However in the context of an introduction to the various omni-directional drive systems, you might find http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5WKgQJtToM helpful. If you go to http://www.andymark.biz/wheels.html you will see some good photos (and pricing) for some very effective wheel solutions.
There is much more available by searching the forums here and finding the FIRST workshop presentations at the USFIRST website. Hope that helps clear things up, and thanks to MVRT for a great video resource on youtube.
Jason
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yeah... that's our plan... but first of all we need to understand it consistently, after we need to convince our sponsor... and then go to the "dirty work"...
It seems that this year we'll finally test some new kind of drive system... and for just one reason it looks like mechanum whells are a little better than omniwheels (for a person that never worked with any of them):
If something goes wrong... it's easy to put a "normal" wheel in one of the end and go for a simple tank drive...
This year we experienced great problems with your drivetrain system... because our bot wasn't able to turn well... so we always lost much time turning... maybe that made us "far away" from greater success...
thanks... the video was very nice... it cleared many things here... now we are studying some topics lil' avery listed here... nice ones, by the way...
Good bye, at least for now

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