Potential Omni Drive System

[Ether]

Originally Posted by Spoam

Ether, since this a relatively novel drive that lacks the wealth of information available for other drives, do you think you could list some disadvantages of a drive like this?

I've never built, driven, or even seen a drive like this in action, so take the following speculations with a grain of salt.


Disadvantages

It's not going to be as easy to drive in a straight line as skidsteer or swerve.

It may require closed-loop speed control of the wheels to get stable and predictable performance.

Traction is poor compared to swerve and skidsteer.

Available force is not equal in all directions, and is less than swerve.

Advantages

It has (theoretically) all the degrees of freedom that a mec or swerve has. (Slide drive does not).

It seems to be rather simple to build and code.

It's probably lighter that mec and swerve.

It's probably less expensive than mec and swerve.

(especially compared to comparable drive trains like slide, mecanum and skid-steer)?

I don't consider slide drive to be comparable to mec and swerve. It does not have 3 degrees of freedom.

and the effect of CoMon driving

What is "CoMon" driving?