mecanum vs. omni

[dtengineering]

Originally Posted by mateus

Here in Brazil, no team has used Omni or Mechanum wheels at all...
I would like to know the diference between Holonomic drive, Omnidrive and as i saw in some posts here...

It sounds like there is an ideal opportunity for you to introduce some cool new wheels to Brazil. The Omni wheels are great for much more than just an omni directional drive... as mentioned above when you put omni wheels on one end of your traditional "tank" drive robot it becomes much, much easier to turn it.

However in the context of an introduction to the various omni-directional drive systems, you might find http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5WKgQJtToM helpful. If you go to http://www.andymark.biz/wheels.html you will see some good photos (and pricing) for some very effective wheel solutions.

There is much more available by searching the forums here and finding the FIRST workshop presentations at the USFIRST website. Hope that helps clear things up, and thanks to MVRT for a great video resource on youtube.

Jason