Thread: Swerve vs. Mecanum Programming
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Unread 17-04-2010, 19:00
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Trying to program the swerve drive
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Re: Swerve vs. Mecanum Programming
AM has a great powerpoint about omnidirectional drive, which has several diagrams that may make seeing the vectors talked about above easier to see.

http://www.andymark.biz/presentations.html

Also, if you use a gamepad or similar control device, using the left joystick to control the movement of the actual robot and using the right joystick x axis to rotate the robot, it makes it very easy for someone who has played Halo to figure out how to drive your robot.
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