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Re: pic: 1126 - from 4 Wheel Swerve to 3 Wheel

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Originally Posted by MICHAELABICK View Post
I'm not sure a lot of people know about this, but throughout eliminations, until the finals of LA, 1717 had only 3 of 4 modules working. Eventually, with the extra long finals waits, they were able to replace it. It is really surprising, seeing how they still did so well in those matches, especially because 4 wheel independent requires all modules to be working.
It's an impressive feat, that's for sure.

However, the 4 wheel independent swerve is actually surprisingly resilient in terms of drive or steering failure (especially if you have code that compensates directly for failure). The use of gyro heading stabilization and/or field centric also greatly help.

The entire module hadn't failed from what I heard; either drive or steering worked. With just one or the other down, it's not too bad.
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