pic: Robot Concept CAD

[MikeBrock]

Originally Posted by mdiradoorian

I am hoping that your goal is NOT supposed to go over the barrier because your mechanum wheels may break and will spend a lot of time to be fixing it at the competition. Other than that the inventor model is good.

We plan to go over the bridge, not the bump. Implying that we might plan to go over the bump is a bit insulting to our intelligence. However, what if we added some sort of high strength shims along the front and back of the wheels (like fenders) out of something like steel or titanium. I think it would work in theory.

Why would mentor experience have anything to do with using mecanum wheels? There are boatloads of teams who have published mecanum drive code.

I was thinking; everyone complains about being pushed around with mecanum wheels. What if we used the internals of a shifting gearbox (they seem pretty simple) to make each wheel have two speeds? Then, a curved plate with some high friction material (traction tread) could come down on the rollers of each wheel and act as a brake. It would solve those issues but still allow us to strafe and slide around.

As for using the kit base: we don't see the need.