# Omnidirectional Movement for 3 Wheeled Spherical Omni wheel robot

I was watching James Bruton's video on his spherical omniwheeled robot and he was explaining how to go directly sideways. He explains this from 6:09 to 7:06. I didn't understand how the velocity of the wheels not facing the direction of movement move exactly the cos(60). I kind of get how the yaw force from the directional wheel need to be counteracted by the other 2 wheels so each wheel spins at half the velocity of the directional wheel but how does this have to do with the cos(60)? Can someone please explain the math behind this?

Imagine that we need to move forward at an axial speed of 10. What speed must be applied to the left and right motors so that the entire robot moves forward at a speed of 10? Let's find out. X is the required axial speed. The front wheels are off-axis by 30 degrees. The side is adjacent, so we take the cos of 30 degrees. We get 10 / cos(30) is approximately 11.54. But we have two motors, so we just halve the speed and feed the motors. (I do not take into account the direction of rotation here).
Now the front motors. They are located at an angle of 60 degrees to the desired axis. The side is again adjacent, we take the cosine. Next, we take half of the required speed, divide it by cosine 60, then divide it in half again, because there are two motors in front and that's it. Well, an example. If we want to move at a speed of 10 to the side, then we need to apply speed 5 to the back motor, and 2.5 to each of the front ones.
So that's why there is a cos(60).