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Mecanum. What's Best
Our team is trying to build a mecanum drive so we can add it to arsenal of drives. We have never made a successful mecanum drive yet. My freshman year (overdrive) we tried but our gear ratio was miscalculated and we could barely move. So now I want to make one that we can play with and possibly use (rebuilding/coding for the season of course). My questions are:
What's "best?"
-Wide, Long, or Square Frame (wide=wheels parallel to each other are farther apart than the wheels behind/in front of it, long=wheels are closer to the ones in front of/behind it than the ones parallel to it.
-Chain Driven or Direct Driven
-Field Oriented or Robot Oriented

*by best I mean in your experience what have you done and what where the upsides and downsides. what has worked well for you and what has been bad.

I have done a quick search and found how to build mecanums but nothing that shows why one might be better than another. If I missed something Please point me to it.