Searching For Swerve / Holonomic Drive Idea

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Originally Posted by ctt956

I would think rotating while driving straight with any drivetrain would be fairly difficult...

If i understand what you guys are talking about correctly it really doesn't take that much coordination at all.

All the driver has to do input the the desired direction of rotation and then match that speed of rotation with the rotating of whatever control axis controls the forward/backwards, and strafing.

For example, a driver controlling the robot with 2 joy sticks one of which controls rotation by moving left and right, and the other controls all of the strafing commands. If the driver wants to move the robot in a straight line all the while rotating to the left, all he must do is move the rotation joystick to the left, while at the same time rotating the strafing joystick in a clockwise direction with the same rotation speed as the robot itself. By slowing down the speed that the strafing stick is being rotated the robot will veer to the left and by speeding it up the robot will veer to the right.