Mecanum wheels under varying loads

[dellagd]

Interesting. I'm guessing doing the complete analysis would be pretty complicated if there aren't any papers about it. I wonder if a good estimation could be made that works well enough in practice?

[Ether]

Originally Posted by dellagd

I'm guessing doing the complete analysis would be pretty complicated

Yeah I think so. Alan's post#16 does a pretty good job explaining why load affects mec behavior and possible ways to deal with it.

Other options to deal with it involve using actual vehicle motion sensors (e.g. gyro, encoders on follower wheels, etc) to make corrections to the driver's commands.