Thread: fine control of robot with mecanum wheels
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Re: fine control of robot with mecanum wheels
My team is using mecanum wheels, I believe we are using the same setup or something similar.


One thing to keep in mind is that everything has a slight polarity, and a deadband. You can work to figure out where the motors start spinning, and then account for it in code.

Also, another thing my team has found useful is separating the rotation component from the XY joystick to another one - we found it was nearly impossible to spin without moving off axis until we did this.


After this season's competition I think I'll write a whitepaper on how I got the students to approach mecanum drive, our setup this year is very easy to control and I'd like them to be able to use it easily in future years (without having to worry about cheating).
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