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Originally Posted by SuperNerd256
The only real implementation I can see is extra pushing power in all directions, which is in itself useful, depending on the robot.
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The six wheel swerve actually had basically no extra pushing power past that which a four wheel swerve would have supplied. This is because it was a dropped center 6 wheel. Therefore it effectively only had four wheels on the ground at any given time.
The main plus to the 6wd swerve was maneuverability.
Our team has done a few 4 wheel "swerves" (people call different wheel configurations different names, so I will just group them all under the term "swerve"). We had always done 4 wheel swerves before, but didn't have the programming capability to create a swerve with independent steering and power for each module. without doing this a four wheel swerve will almost always lack the ability to rotate about itself well. (a notable exception is 1717's steering configuration)
In order to get past this dilemma without using programming, we decided to solve it mechanically, with the 6wd swerve.