Thread: Video of Mecanum Drive Running Circles Around 6 Wheel Drives
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Re: Video of Mecanum Drive Running Circles Around 6 Wheel Drives
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Originally Posted by Bjenks548 View Post
I'm not positive about this, but I heard somewhere that mec drives have never been on Einstein in FRC. I think the cons of a mec drive outweigh the cons of i well built 6wd. The biggest of these being practice time for drivers.
Considering mecanums in FRC was pioneered by (if memory serves me) team 357 in 2005, and since they've only become "popular" since their commercial introduction by AndyMark in 2007? And since in 2009 they weren't allowed, I'm not surprised.

From personal experience, field centric mecanum drive is about a hundred times easier to learn to control than a traditional tank drive.
Which is to say that practice time for drivers is an advantage of holonomic drives, not a disadvantage.
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