[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Adam Freeman

Never thought about it that way. I would guess no, since the entire upper structure tubing was mounted through the chassis so I doubt there was much flex in the drivetrain. We had an issue during the build season where the claw was misaligned to the frame....it was almost impossible to flex the frame and upper structure to straighten it. We had to seperate components to get any movement.

But, anything is possible we've never looked at a corner to corner stiffness in the vertical direction.

My honest opinion is that we put ourselves in bad positions during the match which lead to a lot of easy t-bones for the defense.

This past weekend, I got a chance to work with 16 as our partner at OZARK during eliminations. I took notice how easy it was for their swerve to just move away from a t-bone and drive away.
Even though we practiced a lot with 368, I never took notice because it wasnt a full field of robots and with defense from multiple robots.
Swerve is another direction we might move towards, as we tinker with drivetrain setups during the off-season. We already built a swerve back in 2009 but never implemented it into a real design for an FRC challenge.