Thread: Swerve Drive vs Mecanum Wheel drive?
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Unread 03-04-2014, 20:01
Ben Wolsieffer Ben Wolsieffer is offline
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Re: Swerve Drive vs Mecanum Wheel drive?
Both mecanum and swerve drive depend a lot on the implementation and especially on programming. We haven't used swerve but have used mecanum on most of our robots. Until this year we had to consciously switch modes with a button press so we didn't really take advantage to them fully. This year I implemented a field oriented drive system that has amazing maneuverability.

I know I am very biased towards mecanums, but I believe that their advantage of maneuverability outweighs their disadvantages and they can be very useful for teams (like ours) who don't have the resources to build effective swerve systems.
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