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Re: Your thoughts on Mecanum wheels....
One unavoidable problem with both Mecanum and Kiwi-style omni drives are that you are essentially throwing away 30% of your speed. For every rotation of the Mecanum wheel, the robot only translates 1/sqrt(2) = 70.7% of the wheel's circumference when driving straight. Driving diagonally (with two wheels driving and the other two fixed) alleviates this problem.
This is why 341 changed our 2007 kiwi drive from this:
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to this:
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last year.
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