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Originally Posted by FoXy92
While watching web casts and other competitions, I've seen robots with omni/crab/swerve drive, and I was wondering what it's like to drive one of those  |
I was the base driver for 1083 the two years that we had holonomic drive. It was really, really fun! There are so many cool moves that you can make with a holonomic robot that you can't make with a typical tank drive bot. To answer your question, driving an omni bot is like driving a hockey puck on ice, you slide everywhere. When driving an omni bot you can just forget about pushing anyone, you just have to out maneuver them.
As for driving in this year's game, I think one of the keys is staying calm. I have seen some matches (and regionals) that could have been won if the drivers would have just kept their cool and took some time to line a ringer up and cap it.