how to program mecanum wheel drive?

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Originally Posted by kornjones

My team has been using mecanums for a few years and at the beginning of the year an alumni asked me to make a program that could take full advantage of the mecanum wheels instead of our usual tank drive with trigger strafe boringness. after much thought and many matrices i realized that if you subtract the y axis form the x axis for the front right and back left and add y and x axes for the front right and back left we could make what i like to call omnidrive. it basically made it so that the robot would move in any direction the stick was pointing. after some more finagling i put the controls on two sticks and fixed a few value issues and now we have 2 stick mecanum omnidrive. its pretty difficult to explain but its fantastic to drive. if anyone needs any help i am also available for assistance

What you have described has no rotation. Perhaps you left something out of your description?

Also, I assume there's a typo in there, because you said "front right and back left" twice.