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Re: Swerve Drive vs Mecanum Wheel drive?

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
Prejudice like that shouldn't be part of scouting. I think the appropriate thing would be to make your assessment based on what each robot actually does, and how well, rather than what you think its design is capable of.
The assessment is based in large part on a fairly quantitative measure of scouting assessment data. (In fact we are probably the most empirically data-driven scouting team (for good or bad) in the the state now that I've seen scouting data from most of the top teams.) There are probably exceptional robots, and as Mike mentioned, we focus on offensive ability regardless of drive for our first choice. However, we observe in California that successful implementation of mecanum drives by third tier robotic teams is such a rarity that we focus on tank drives. A team that successfully uses mecanum drive probably will be an alliance captain and therefore not available as a 2nd pick.
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