Omni Wheels Vs. Mecanum Wheels

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Omni Wheels Vs. Mecanum Wheels

View Poll Results: What Type of wheel does your team use?
Standard KOP	58	42.65%
Omni wheels	19	13.97%
Mecanum Wheels	42	30.88%
Colson Wheels	36	26.47%
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30-03-2014, 00:58

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Re: Omni Wheels Vs. Mecanum Wheels

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Originally Posted by EricH

Sort of... but you're off by a year.

148 and 217 built a "nonadrive" in 2010--in fact, they collaborated on it. The butterfly was omnis and traction, and a 5th omni was mounted perpendicularly to the rest of the drivetrain (for sideways motion).

I was considering nonadrive as a different drive because of the 5th omni, they did not run the drive that everyone now calls butterfly drive until 2011.

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