Thread: Swerve Drive vs Mecanum Wheel drive?
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Re: Swerve Drive vs Mecanum Wheel drive?
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Originally Posted by efoote868 View Post
2008 didn't lend itself to mecanum drive trains (successful robots were geared 18fps+ with 2 stage transmissions).
To be fair, one of the finalists on curie in 2008, 2171, was running mecanums. And IIRC they were actually using them as well (to weave through traffic).
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