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Yo Keegan - Question about mecanum wheels on your latest NE-Five:

Do mecanum wheels drive straight?
(Like dY < 1cm, dHeading < 2 degrees for dX of 1m)?

When you run him around the house and return is the encoder odometry totally bad?

My bot has a bit of "flopsy wheels" causing / with LIDAR and /odom to "lose it" on long excursions around my house.

Thinking about a new bot with wheels instead of with "flopsy" plastic motors

Mecanum wheels of Keegan's NE-Five robot. Mecanum wheels have angled rollers around the perimeter of the wheel.
rviz2 map showing local planner trying to navigate GoPi5Go-Dave robot but the robot gets confused and stops to contemplate his navel -- (figure out where he is and where he is pointing)
Dec 09, 2024, 03:23 PM·Public
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