what motor/gear configuration would be the best to use with a mecanum wheel drive? The set up my team is using right now had posed some issues with speed.
In all seriousness you won’t get much speed out of the meccanum wheels as they are very inefficient. I recommend switching to a simple tank drive with omni wheels
A good amount of this is misguided. I’ll be brief because I should be writing a paper:
X drives… actually don’t waste more space than mecanums. In fact, they’re about equal. (IF built properly) the mecanum wheels are much thicker than omni wheels. Add all the needed supports, and a 3.25 in omni setup can be placed in just about the same space.
mechanum drives “waste” as much torque as x drives. 45 degree rollers…
In fact, more. The cambered (think thats the right word) rollers are just terrible on VEX’s part. A better mecanum would have parallel rollers, like GER’s custom mecanums.
Mecanums THEMSELVES aren’t a bad idea. (aside form the terrible geometry which losses over 50% torque when strafing IIRC) The problem is mostly with VEX.
Yea I agree with that. That’s why I edited that it may be wrong because I realized that my research and experimentation doesn’t look spot-on. Sorry I made the post misguided.