Maximizing the in-line CoF of Omni-wheels

[Dunngeon]

Originally Posted by Bryce Paputa

Significantly better than omnis with standard rollers. Even if you could only get the COF to 1.1 or 1.2, that would be 10 or 20%. Looking at the difference of the two different vex versawheels (http://www.vexrobotics.com/vexpro/wh...sawheels.html), the W tread adds an additional 20% compared to the DT tread. You could probably get a similar increase by adding a pattern to the omni rollers.

All things equal, it would, but given how Omni's behave in a pushing match against another robot that isn't dead center. It would likely negate much of the gain that would be seen. (i.e. they break loose/slide in a direction away from the pusher, effectively rendering the friction gain useless)

Given the amount of time that would be put into building these (taking apart the wheels, rollers, testing,ect.), I think a team interested in Omni's could easily design something else that fits the bill better (Such as Butterfly) and be much happier with the results.