Team 1143 Mecanum Wheel Test

This is the Cruisin' Comets first day testing our 2010 robot. She isn't close to finished, but boy do those Mecanum wheels make an impression!

The soundtrack is AC/DC's Hell's Bells.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Team
• 1143
• Cruisin'
• Comets
• Abington
• Heights
• robot
• FRC
• 2010
• Mecanum
• FIRST

[ultaimlitho]

THat is EPIC.

how are the moters being powered when it moves sidewards?

and is there any problems with thing getting stuck in the rollers?

[91charlestrep]

May I ask where you got those mecanum wheels?

[daddyleon]

it's driftin' bitch!!

[killer43213]

Do the individual rollers on the wheels individually rotate? Or is the overall direction solely based on the overall rotation of the wheels? I guess what I'm asking is are the rollers free to rotate or are they motorized and rotate to contribute to the overall direction...

[iamgodlike91]

@Spoif ooh..i'm currently doing a final year project. i have 4 servos. i'm using an Interface free controller card to control these servos. i just hope if i use normal (0) ~ (255) programmed wouldn't effect the 1ms delay in every line.

[Spoif]

@iamgodlike91 Looks like the mecanum wheels on this RC vehicle aren't synched to me. You could use a stepper motor based drive system to sync wheels. Alternatively, you need to use some form of microcontroller and implement a PID algorithm to sync wheel rotation. The PID algorithm analyses the degree of past errors, the current error rate and predicts future errors; the weighted sum of which is used to make necessary compensation to the drive system in order to achieve the desired outcome.

[iamgodlike91]

can you please share or teach me how can i synchronize all 4 of the motor..

[multimandan]

cool

[MFiebig]

lol, I love how the robot is being given a workout... in a gym.

Freking awesome by the way.

[000Plasma000]

@bronzehydra3 I hardly think not recognizing a song makes a person a total dumbshit.