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Re: Mecanum vs. Swerve Drive

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Originally Posted by Madison View Post
The conventional wisdom has been that implementing mecanum has become easy. The wheels are available as COTS parts, the code is shared freely, etc. The reality has been, though, that there's a significant performance discrepancy between the few good implementations and the piles and piles of really terrible ones. That suggests that mecanum really isn't that easy to get right and we should probably be putting it into the same category as WCD or swerve -- perhaps still not in terms of effectiveness, but certainly in terms of knowledge required to do it right.
While I agree, I'd venture this is the case for essentially all DTs. You don't need closed-loop to drive tank any more than you need absolute encoders for mecanum, but there's still a world of difference between the way, say, 11 drives tank and the way xxxx does. Or 25 for the former, to be more colloquial. (I just really like watching 11 this year)


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