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Originally Posted by Thad House
with all the COTS options I could see alot of teams doing it.
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While the COTS swerve modules certainly have made *machining* a swerve as simple (if not simpler) than machining a WCD, the mechanism is only part of swerve.
In order to get the full benefits of swerve (or really any omni direction drive for that matter), you really need to be able to implement a good control scheme that is exponentially more difficult to do than a control scheme for WCD.
Also as a side note: I think that some of the initially negative posts about swerve on this thread we're saying "Swerve is useless", but were saying "A lot of teams are going to underestimate the challenge of implementing swerve during build season and will subsequently not have functional/effective drive bases come competition time". (Disclaimer: That's just my interpretation and I don't want to put words into anyone's mouth)