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Originally Posted by Cog
My team may end up building and refining a drive train over the summer. The goal is to have a bullet proof and reliable design that we can learn from to make a better drive train suited for next year's game. The decision on what we could build seems to have come down to either a swerve drive, or a wheeled tank drive. Which of these designs would you favor for education?
For some context: We are what I would consider a high resource team (full shop with lathe, mill, band saw, etc.) However, despite our resources we don't have a whole lot of collective experience (many more freshman and sophomores than seniors and juniors.)
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While building a good, traditional WCD is great for future years, I will always be one to recommend swerve to anyone who wants a design or programming challenge. A good lightweight swerve is definitely a challenge, although with work, I think it is very rewarding. On the design side, it teaches some good design principles, and on the programming side, it teaches vector math and how to use PID. So in short, for your situation and with your resources, I would recommend working on a good swerve drive.