Thread: Mecanum vs. Swerve Drive
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Re: Mecanum vs. Swerve Drive
Over the years I have only seen a few Mecanum bots that have true omnidirectional movement on the field. They could strafe at best. We love to have our way with them. There have been many times where we had to defend a good scoring Mecanum on our alliance from the opposing alliance defense. I have yet to see a Mecanum on the field have control of chassis orientation and drive direction. I would choose a well developed 6 or 8 wheel tank over Mecanum any day.