Re: Omni vs. Diff drive

With omni drive enabled in Stage, you should be able to give x, y and
a speeds independently. If it really doesn't work, please file a bug
report. Try SetSpeed() with zeros for all but y and see if the robot
moves sideways.

- rtv


On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Lana Eliason
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hey all :)
>
> I have a quick question regarding the 'drive' of a robot in player stage.
>
> I originally had the drive set to diff for the robots (drive "diff") but I
> realised I want it to move more like a helicopter than a car, so tried to
> change it to 'drive "omni"', however this doesn't appear to have done
> anything; It still rotates around extreme left and extreme right of the
> robots and I can't really find much useful documentation on it. Is there
> anything else I need to set to get it to behave more like an omnidirectional
> robot?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lana
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