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Re: Swerve with a twist

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Originally Posted by lovelj View Post
Swerve is what everyone is FIRST is calling the in-line orientable wheel, figure 1 a) in the paper.
"Swerve module" is the phrase most CD folks use to refer to an in-line orientable wheel like figure 1 a) in the paper.

"Swerve" usually refers to a vehicle using swerve modules in a particular way.


This is from page 3671 of the paper you linked:
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In the past, four wheel steering vehicle[7] has been developed. The vehicle has steering wheels with conventional tires and can move in the omnidirection by orienting all wheels in the same direction
Is the above-quoted description your intended meaning of swerve in your earlier statement "swerve is by definition non holonomic"?

Or are you claiming that a swerve vehicle with four swerve modules -- each of which can be steered and driven independently of the others -- is "non holonomic" ?

Or did you mean something else entirely ?