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Re: Team 5550 - Fall Project

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery View Post
I challenge you to show me the math (or at least the reasoning) to why you believe Mecanum drives to be more efficient than Omni drives.

Hint: Consider both drives moving not only in "straight" directions, but also diagonals.

As for traction, Vex quotes a CoF of 1.0 for their Mecanum wheels and a CoF of 1.1 for their Omni wheels.
...Yeah :|

Alright, that'll teach me to repeat information without a source and critical thinking. Drawing the vectors makes them look like the same.

Then, why does one never see a 4-omni holonomic drive used in FRC?
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