pic: FRC488's Octocanum Ver 2.0

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pic: FRC488's Octocanum Ver 2.0

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06-11-2011, 22:47

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Re: pic: FRC488's Octocanum Ver 2.0

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Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

The loss in acceleration is I believe the biggest downside of using mecanum, the reality I saw was that our robot was just far slower in accelerating, changing direction, and stopping (decelleration) then high traction based drive systems.

What do you think would cause a mecanum to stop unacceptably slowly?

Are you saying it slides across the carpet when you try to stop quickly?

Do you have any video showing this?

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