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Re: Swerve Drive vs Mecanum Wheel drive?

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Originally Posted by efoote868 View Post
While Ether has shown field-centric control can be adapted to tank drives, it isn't as natural a control as it is for omnidirectional drives.
I put field-centric "Gyro Guided Skid Steer" on a practice bot back in 2011.

It was a hoot to drive. Try it some time.


efoote868 is right, though: the mecanum/omni "Halo Auto-Rotate" (Halo-AR) version is noticeably smoother.


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