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Re: pic: A mechanum wheel that shouldn't bump around at all.

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Originally Posted by Hawiian Cadder View Post
no, if the rollers are at 45 degrees, then the strafe speed is half of what the forward reverse speed is, because going forward, the wheels act like normal wheels, however when they are strafing, they are 2 vectors at 45 degree angles, so only half of the magnitude of the vector is in the direction of the strafe.
I do not think so. The resultant of the vectors is in the direction that they roll. There is no way that the magnitude of the vectors would be the forward/reverse vector because then the vectors that composed it would have to be at 45 degrees which would mean strafing motion would be impossible.

This is what the vectors of a mecanum wheel look like.

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