pic: Another concept study

[Tom Ore]

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

You may want to consider making the macanum's slower. 13 FPS will not give you a lot of torque on the wheels that is needed to make your roboto strafe. In 2011 we used CIMple boxes on our 6inch mecanum's and we were unable to strafe. I may be wrong because I am not a Mecanum master or anything, but this is just from my experience.

When we run a simple Mecanum drivetrain we run at around 9 fps. This seems to be about as fast as you can go and still get maximum pushing force from the Mecanums.

Last year we ran at about 10.7 fps and had no trouble. With the traction wheels we don't need to worry about the Mecanum's lower pushing force so we can run faster.

This concept is at 13 fps but that doesn't mean we would ever build it that way. Our driver said he didn't go to full speed at 10.7 fps very often so faster than that would have be a need driven by the game.