Breakaway question: getting on platform with meccanum?

[RoboMaster]

Originally Posted by EricH

Even that one would have trouble strafing onto the platform, though--for a (best-guess) 14-inch diameter wheel, the roller tips still look to be about 1/2 inch off the ground.

I think you're looking at differently than me. I mean that not only do the maccanum wheels allow you to strafe on the bump, but the rollers would stick out enough that they would catch on the lip of the platform, pull the robot up as they turn, and continue to strafe on the platform. The rollers that are about at the level of the axle would grip on the platform.

Now that I think about it, that might not really work. The catching rollers would have to stick out farther than the others to be the only ones that catch on the lip of the platform. However, it still might work since all the rollers are angled.