Mecanum Drivetrains

[yash101]

Originally Posted by Pendulum^-1

Limitation number one: Mecanum wheels are very easy to push. A problem on a field with well-defined chokepoints, such as the 2013 arena.

I have to disagree with this. We were able to easily push around the other robots. We used four CIMs, one on each wheel.

Even if you are being pushed around, the maneuverability of mecanum allows you to typically free yourself easily.

Mecanums are quite a friendly drivetrain if you want to have full control on how you move, without getting way too complicated. It will go on just as regular wheels would, however, using a separate transmission for each wheel. The rest of the changes required are all in the robot code. Also, if your mecanum robot code isn't ready, your standard code will work, only without support for the advanced features like sideways driving