Tank Drive vs. Omni Directional Drive

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Tank Drive vs. Omni Directional Drive

View Poll Results: For the teams using mecanum. or omni, wheels are you using omni directional drive?
We're using omni directional	23	47.92%
Just normal tank drive	25	52.08%
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24-01-2010, 14:22

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Re: Tank Drive vs. Omni Directional Drive

Jamie is right. You get amazing turning performance by using mecanum wheels on an otherwise plain vanilla four-wheel tank drive robot. You sacrifice almost 30 percent of your theoretical maximum power in the process, though playing with the friction on the roller axles can get a lot of it back while still retaining the ability to turn in place without hopping or overloading the motors.

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