paper: Mecanum: we can't even agree on pronunciation?

[lcoreyl]

Originally Posted by StevenB

Since I've been one of the people apparently spreading misinformation, please help me work through this.

First off, Kudos for being open to changing your mind. I believe Einstein has a quote about that...

The part I have trouble with is this statement: A mecanum wheel generates 41% more driving force than an omni wheel driven by the same torque

The example you talk about jumps to a more complex application of the statement you quoted. First let's start with a few simpler steps and you can stop me if you disagree with them:

1a) 1 mecanum wheel translates torque to a force 45 degrees from the plane of the wheel
1b) 1 omni wheel translates torque to a force parallel to the plane of the wheel (same as a regular wheel)

2) actually, before step 2 I think I'll get a pdf put up since the wheel pictures are important.

PS - I may have missed something in your document, since I don't have Word and the diagrams are showing up all garbled. Any chance you could post a PDF?

Working on that now...