pic: Octocanum Module

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Originally Posted by GeeTwo

With omnis, I would agree with you. However, mecanums generate as much side force as forward/reverse force by design even when the robot is driving directly forward. With octanum, I'd consider the traction wheels as having less sideways loading under most conditions, probably only exceeding the peak mecanum side load when being T-boned. And in that case, the solution is to switch to mecanum and strafe your way out of the t-bone, or at worst into a legal pin that (under most years' rules) is time limited.

It's not the constant force of the mecanum or of a T-Bone. I'd be worried about that initial shock load when someone slams into your(2014) and you have pivoted the traction wheels down. You can only react so fast and you're not going to see every robot coming.