[EricH]

Originally Posted by karomata

One of the problems of the drive train your talking about, is that in our appliances, we usually don't incorporate the suspension system the Mars Rover has, so if you found a way to make a dropcenter swerve drive that could tackle bumps like the barrier in the 2012 game, i believe it would become very popular very quickly.
As long as its simple.

Look up Winnovation's 2010 swerve, all six wheels of it.

It's still the only 6-wheel swerve to compete in FRC. Swerve by definition isn't simple... and adding an extra 2 wheels doesn't help.

Most of the time a 4-wheel (or even 3-wheel) swerve is used, the field is flat. But, this year, several teams used swerve and also crossed the barrier without using the bridges (and then balanced the bridges).