pic: Butterfly Drive Concept

[RoboticDaymon]

Originally Posted by orangemoore

With Mecanum you have to run each wheel individually. Here they can run each side resulting in the ability to run 3 cims per side.

Yep this is why it was designed like this. Also I wanted to ability to have a 2 speed shift with the wheels at a 1:1 ratio so this seemed like the simplest solution. Also the next iteration of the design will (probably) have the traction and omni flipped.