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Re: Mecanum. What's Best

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Originally Posted by jamie_1930 View Post
When irregular CoG I meant non-centered, and that's probably the word I should have used, because I find that on most, if not all, FIRST Robots you will see a non-center CoG. If anyone has proof that they have built a CoG centered robot I would love to here how they did it.
Yeah, it's pretty tough to control the CoG precisely. But CoG should always be on your mind as the robot is being designed. The design criteria for mec wheels is equal normal force on all 4 wheels, as much as possible. This does not mandate locating the wheels at the corners of a square.