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Re: Who is using swerve for aerial assist and why

At the end of our season swerve both saved our team and destroyed it. We did not use that much machine time from our shop. We got funding for the development of the swerve drive alone. The biggest resorese draw was not machining or even programming but a few of our high performance students left to go machine it leaving the rest of the robot in a mad house. In the end it will leave a legacy of something much more advanced then ever before. Something to build on year in and year out.
I think we got farther with a working swerve then if we would have with a better manipulate. Plus the personal reward for completing it is something amazing.