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Hmmm. I must confess I'm not that up to date with our code base to answer your question. And I'm currently on vacation so I don't have the hardware in front of me.
But. I can share with you the code that is running on our Orion board.
https://github.com/tiigbg/telepresence-motorcontrol/blob/master/motorcontrol/motorcontrol.ino
Our robot has mecanum wheels, and we have some code on the orion to make the robot able to strafe.
The orion code receives commands from a computer over serial. This command consists of a rotation speed, direction and movement speed. The Orion code then calculates the proper speeds for the four motors according to the algoritm/equations found in this paper: http://eprints.utem.edu.my/16543/1/Omni%20Directional%20Control%20Algorithm%20For%20Mecanum%20Wheel%2024%20Pages.pdf

Here is a link to the node program that sends the serial commands to the orion board:
https://github.com/Dealerpriest/websocket-to-serial/blob/master/websocket-serial-server.js

I'm aware that this might be a lot to dig through, but as of now I can't provide that much more help.

A thought I had is that I see that your code calls setMode(1). In our code we never call setMode() i think. Maybe that could be an issue, even though I right now wouldn't know how.

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Thanks mate,
I managed to make it work getting rid of the PID because we didn't really need it for our application.
Thanks so much about your help, our robot is now way less noisy and annoying which is awesome!

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Nice!
We should document the firmware better. I hope to find some time after vacation to do that!

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