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Re: mecanum/holonomic/omni drive

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
This is what our team has learned so far. I'm posting it here for the benefit of any team still struggling with, or wanting to learn more, about holonomic drive.
I gave our programmers three programming assignments at the beginning of the build season related to this, to write pseudo code to drive a mecanum drive setup (I broke it into neat little chunks for them).

http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/yhst-...lSpecSheet.pdf

A discussion on vectors is useful in teaching mecanum wheels, and an understanding of vectors is critical in making sure the robot's wheels are correctly placed (The whole "diamond" versus "X", and an ability to spin).

Thinking about it in terms of "This wheel must spin this way when you want the robot to travel in this direction" is useful, and breaking it into one part at a time makes it more manageable.
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