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Vehicles equipped with so-called mecanum wheels can translate in any direction and rotate on the spot without slippage though the axes of the wheels are fixed in the vehicle body. This paper presents an analysis of the kinematics, dynamics, and control of such vehicles.
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Wampfler et al. (1989) studied this question.
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