Maintaining perfect control of mecanums using encoders?

[jbsmithtx]

Originally Posted by Ether

The weight distribution matters only if:

1) one or more wheels loses traction because it has far less weight than the others

or

2) one or more of the wheels has significantly more rolling friction because of the extra weight

So to create a balanced mecanum bot, we don't need a suspension? Because we definitely determined at the end of the year that this was the root of our problems...

Then again, we did have a few nasty hits, and I believe right now in our classroom we can rock the robot on the front left and rear right corners a wee bit...