A small issue with our Mecanums

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A small issue with our Mecanums

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22-02-2007, 22:16

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Re: A small issue with our Mecanums

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Originally Posted by meatmanek

See my previous post. The axis of the rollers must be radial to the robot, not tangent to it. If the rollers are tangent to the robot, 90 degrees to the rollers will always be pointing out from or in to the robot's center, hence, you cannot turn your robot, or prevent others from turning it.

Thank you. We should be moving much better after we get that working at regionals. Luckily this is our only issue this year.

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