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Re: Disadvantages of swerve/crab


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Originally Posted by John View Post
Theoretically, if you had unlimited resources, unlimited manufacturing time, unlimited programming time, and unlimited driver practice time, to build a "perfect" swerve drive, it would be clearly better than any other drive train.
You didn't mention anything about waiving FRC rules, so I assume you are still limited to the legal type and number of motors.

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its omnidirectional ability would be as good as mecanum/omniwheel drive
I think the jury is still out on whether it is possible to steer the wheels on a swerve fast enough to make swerve "omnidirectional ability" as good as a well-built omni or mec.



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