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Re: Macanum ability to climb ramps

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
The reason mecanums wouldn't be able to climb the humps isn't that the wheels have low traction, it's that if you go any direction other than head-on, at least one of your wheel's rollers will free spin the robot down the ramp.

Up the ramp straight is certainly doable.
That's a very good point.

I remember some teams talking about playing with how tight their rollers were back in the day. This makes it harder for the rollers to free spin, which increases traction when not going straight, but also will make it slightly harder to strafe. It's something worth playing with.