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Re: Swerve Drive vs Mecanum Wheel drive?

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Originally Posted by kuraikou View Post
3: From what I have heard from people on my team, (maybe true maybe not) they cannot go as fast because their speed is limited.

the third problem may not exist, but I think it does because I trust my teammates.
The third one is both true and false :) The speed is equal to the speed of any other wheel of the same diameter when traveling forwards/reverse, but the speed when just strafing is only sqrt(2)/2 times the maximum forward speed (I believe... its definitely less than 1). Tank doesn't have this option in the first place, and swerve has 100% of its forward speed when traveling sideways.
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