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Re: Chainless Mecanum Drive

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post
From a programming standpoint it [nonadrive] is much much simpler. The hardest part about mechanum drive machines is controlling them. It involves either lookup tables and interpolating results or using lots of sins and cosines.
Programming mecanum is simple and straightforward.

No trigonometry or lookup tables are required.

You can find theoretical analysis and example programming here.