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Re: Disadvantages of swerve/crab

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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi View Post
Even with a full practice swerve to play with and program, we had only just started to figure out the best controls for the swerve WHILE in Atlanta that year.
That's actually pretty quick as far as I'm concerned. 2079 built a prototype swerve before the 2008 season, we build a swerve drive for the 2008 season. We made our third iteration for the 2009 season. We just started to get it where we wanted it at the end our second regional in 2009. They have since ditched the idea of swerve do to complexity and lack of a fully intuitive algorithm for controls.

The real thing is that swerve is just harder to make well. It's not better or worse than any other drive train.
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