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Originally Posted by cjl2625
Why would any team put mecanum wheels on their robot
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Great question. (Really can't believe no one's done that yet.)
The general reasoning you can find relating the implementation of mecanum drive and a successful robot are as follows
1) The teams that DO implement it do poorly because they may find themselves spending inordinate amounts of time working on the drive base alone, only to maybe not even have it work. Teams with more experience have better success with the system, BUT
2) The teams you would consider to be successful don't implement it for reasons you can say boil down to finding a better way for them to implement omnidirectional drive (148) or them mastering a simple (not easy necessarily, but simple) concept like the WCD on 254.
(can't stress enough this is a sweeping generalization on mecanum and quote-replies of anecdotes about your team's success with mecanum drive will be met with thunderous indifference)