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Originally Posted by s-neff
Frankly, in that video I see your robot pushing around other mechanum/omni robots, and using its momentum well to get the occasional hits on the tank drive 'bots. Your driver is doing a great job, within the physical limitations of the system... those limitations are minimized by the low CG & good system engineering, but still definitely there.
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One was a swerve, one was a mecanum, and the third was a 6 wheel drive. But often times its more about how you drive the robot and how limitations are overcome such as using momentum. I wish I had video of it, but one of the matches during our first regional (which weirdly only a few matches were recorded) we ended up pushing an 8 wheel colson drive across the field from almost a stand still. Can mecanum drives push very often, not really, but should they be eliminated from decision discussion simply because there is a little defense, in my opinion I definitely do not think so because a good drive team with a slick drive train can do surprising things. So ultimately the point I guess I'm trying to get at is just because a drive train doesn't have as much physical grip as another doesn't mean it can't at times match or outperform a technically gripper drive train.