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Re: The Perfect swerve
This year several teams have developed swerve that works very well. Right now I think the biggest problem now is not the physical swerve but the human interface and the driver. Giving the driver an extra degree of freedom really loads up the drivers brain when they are in a match and performing in a match. We over come the the human problem part of the system by going to as many off season events as we can to train our drivers. Going forward with swerve improvements needs to focus on the human part of the equation. Rock solid field centric control would be one path. A swerve simulator was posted on CD. It's primitive. A real good simulator that captures the physics of swerve could be used to help train drivers. That's what the military does. Right now I believe that a reliable IMU based on inexpensive MEMs sensors is almost there. This summer I think we will look at the IMU' and algorithms that just came to market to see if they will work.
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