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Re: pic: 1675's REAL IRI Upgrade

We won Buckeye in 2010 (as alliance captain) using mechanums. During the balance of the season we never felt that we were at any real disadvantage against pusher-bots. In fact, we even successfully stuffed a reasonably-competitive 4WD tank opponent into the goal once. We put a lot of time, effort and $ into the control system to make driving as intuitive as possible however (closed loop on all four wheels, strategic assignment of user I/O, etc.). That, combined with a good driver and a practice bot made us successful, at least at the Regional level which was good enough for us. I don't think we would have been as successful with a traditional drive.

Just another data point...
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