
30-01-2017, 13:38
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no bag, vex only, final destination
AKA: Pinecone
 FRC #0228 (GUS Robotics); FRC #2170 (Titanium Tomahawks)
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 7,792
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Re: Most Graceful Mecanum Robots?
Field-centric and a quality gyro do wonders to make a mecanum drive feel intuitive and accurate. It's just much harder if not impossible to get that kind of fluid driving + strafing with robot centric controls - that's when you get into "crappy tank drive" style driving.
Other than that, Halo controls - lateral movement on the left stick and rotation either on the right stick or on the shoulder buttons if you're feeling adventurous.
Check out 2052 from MN; their 2013 robot in particular had an excellent mecanum drive. I believe they were field centric and used these sort of controls. 2791's 2015 robot was a dream to drive with these controls, but it was pretty bad at everything else it did that year, so I don't have great video of it being dominant or anything.
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Mentor / Drive Coach: 228 (2016-?)
--2016 Waterbury SFs (with 3314, 3719), RIDE #2 Seed / Winners (with 1058, 6153), Carver QFs (with 503, 359, 4607)
Mentor / Consultant Person: 2170 (2017-?)
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College Mentor: 2791 (2010-2015)
-- 2015 TVR Motorola Quality, FLR GM Industrial Design -- 2014 FLR Motorola Quality / SFs (with 341, 4930)
-- 2013 BAE Motorola Quality, WPI Regional #1 Seed / Delphi Excellence in Engineering / Finalists (with 20, 3182)
-- 2012 BAE Imagery / Finalists (with 1519, 885), CT Xerox Creativity / SFs (with 2168, 118)
Student: 1714 (2009) - 2009 MN 10K Lakes Regional Winners (with 2826, 2470)
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