Chainless Mecanum Drive

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Chainless Mecanum Drive

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22-10-2010, 00:02

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Re: Chainless Mecanum Drive

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

Direct drive mecanum is trivially easy. You just need the appropriate reduction in your gearbox for the size of wheels you're using. Like this.

We learned this the hard way. During Overdrive we tried a mecanum drive and our robot would not move. At first it was thought to maybe be a code issue but turned out to be that our gear boxes (stackerboxes) were not geared down enough to move our robot.

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