Holonomic drive train and field-based control

[Dan Petrovic]

Originally Posted by tseres

here's a question for people who have done omni-directional drive systems before:
did you use sensors, and what were they? personally i think omni wheels should have a gyro, but other people think it would be better without one. also, wouldn't you need a gyro or sensors to do autonomous driving?

We used encoders to calibrate the motors and potentially be used for autonomous. No gyro as we didn't have a field based control.