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This year, our team went with a pneumatic-tired swerve drive. It certainly presented a lot of engineering challenges to make, but it also offers us a lot of advantages in competition -- for example, the use of an omnidirectional drive allows us to easily align in front of the goal with vision tracking, and the pneumatic tires mean we don't sacrifice any traction or defense-crossing ability. It also opens up a lot of new possibilities for defending/avoiding defense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ9sYcAYBzo

Our team is very proud of how successful we were in pulling off such a unique drivetrain, and we hope to showcase more of its capabilities at champs tomorrow!