Octocanum Drive/ Mecanum Suspension Designs?

[Darkseer54]

Originally Posted by dougwilliams

Agreed on the point of spending most of our time on mecanum. I guess the trade off you made on your chassis was that suspension for the mecanum was not worth as much as the possibility of losing pressure and having the system fall back to the traction wheels?

Yes, especially as it would turn the robot into a 4 wheel long bot(which can't turn well.) The biggest issue that an octocanum has is it can't turn well in octomode unless you have your traction wheels position inward far enough for it to be a wide base. Defaulting to mecanums fixes this issue.