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Re: mecanum/holonomic/omni drive

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Originally Posted by efoote868 View Post
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.
The way I presented it our team was along these lines:

- which way must each of the four wheels spin in order to go forward?

- which way must each of the wheels spin in order to spin clockwise?

- which way must each of the wheels spin in order to slide right?

Then, once they figured that out, the "aha" moment was understanding that these actions could be superimposed using simple addition to get an algorithm which would allow the robot to execute all three maneuvers at the same time, in any proportion desired.


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