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Re: Forklift project with mecanum wheels HELP

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...In short, when torques of wheels are not same this will cause different speeds. However same speeds of all wheels are needed in order to get a straight line. How can we manage that?
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...I dont want to control the speed unless strictly necessary??
If you want to drive straight when your weight is not distributed equally over all your wheels, controlling speed is strictly necessary.

Not all teams do feedback control of their wheel speed with software. A good driver with analog joysticks directly mapped to speed controllers can be an effective feedback element. But with your wish to use discrete pushbuttons, you'll need some good programming in order to maintain straight line driving.