Mecanum wheels

akash155 · February 20, 2007, 2:37pm

i was wondering how many teams decided to go with mecanum wheels this year

whytheheckme · February 20, 2007, 2:40pm

We did!

Jacob

system · February 20, 2007, 3:29pm

So did we!!

Team 1675

railerobotics · February 20, 2007, 3:30pm

Team 935 they work GREAT!

www.team935.info

FunkyRatDemon · February 20, 2007, 4:54pm

We didn’t, we used Tracks (as always)

1086VEX · February 20, 2007, 8:21pm

teams 1086, 384, and 540 did!

~Alex~

Binome · February 20, 2007, 8:40pm

We did, and since we’re an arm bot, I love it for the incresed manuverability, but hate some of the problems we’ve been having with turning because of gearbox binding. Hopefully these plates will save us.

dpraedan · February 20, 2007, 8:54pm

Just out of curiosity, how many of you guys have full holonomic capabilities?

geeknerd99 · February 20, 2007, 9:16pm

401 did. Driving circles around another robot while facing the same direction is an amazing feeling. For me, it’s kinda like this:

With tank-style drive w/ omni wheels, it’s like… driving. With mecanum, it’s like ballroom dancing.

dpraedan · February 20, 2007, 9:25pm

I would have to completely agree with you. Those gyros get moody, though, and it’s not pleasant when you’re doing a demo in front of a bunch of kids showing them how holonomic works and the gyro decides to tweak. :eek:

efoote868 · February 20, 2007, 9:40pm

We were considering it, but decided that power and traction would server our purpose much better. If everyone was using mecanum wheels, then we’d want to be able to push everyone around so we ended up using 2 wheel drive with IFI wheels.

rachal · February 20, 2007, 10:04pm

we did (and built custom wheels!)

Kingofl337 · February 20, 2007, 10:15pm

It will be interesting how the mecanum wheels do when push comes to shove.

I know how they did last year.