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Originally Posted by efoote868
Seems the key is *when* the rollers start slipping, which we've yet to determine.
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This much has been determined: In a face-to-face pushing contest between robots which are identical except that one robot has standard wheels and the other has mecanum wheels with rollers made out of the same tread material, the robot with the standard wheels will win the contest; not because of any "71% torque efficiency" issue with the mecanum wheels, but rather because the mecanum wheels will lose traction before the standard wheels do. And they will lose traction before the standard wheels do because they have higher forces acting on them (in the plane of the carpet) as explained in previous posts.
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