Thread: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.
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Re: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.
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Originally Posted by Sam_Mills View Post
When you consider that they play on the same field as 254 and 971, this comment is even more surprising, because if it was as easy as driving out of them, then 254 would not bother with their extensive testing of bumper materials, and 971(unless it is for envelope reasons) would not bother with an octagonal drivetrain. At some level you must know you cant just drive out of them either, as you too are updating your 2014 robot with a different bumper shape.
Tank drives such as 254's, 971's, or 1678's can get out of pins precisely due to clever use of bumper shape and material selection. One may even go so far as to say, as others in this thread have done, that the ease-of-use of such drivetrains allows teams to funnel more resources into other aspects of the robot, such as the aforementioned bumpers. Then again, even though I was part of team 1678 for the past two years, I didn't see a single one of our division qualification matches, so what do I know?
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