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Re: First team with swerve drive?

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Originally Posted by ratdude747 View Post
2783 EOT made a "king crab" in 2009.

it had 4 pods. each had 1 cim coaxially driven (by way of a thin gates belt) and next to the cim was a globe for steering (also connected by a gates belt). each pod had 2 rover wheels, for a total of 8 wheels. steering position was determined by analog encoders
Was it programmed to be holonomic (all three degrees of freedom independently and simultaneously controllable) ?