[Chris Fultz]

If you talk to some of the teams that have done good crab drives, most will tell you it takes a while to get it to work well. There are the mechanical aspects of the system, the software aspects, and the driver aspects.

In my view, this would fall into the category of a summer / fall development program, learning, working out the details, and continuing to improve, and then incorporating the design ideas into a competition robot.

With so many things to focus on as a new team, i would carefully do a risk / benefit analysis of undertaking this type of drive. Only you and your team can determine if you have the ability and resources to do this.

Whatever way you go, best of luck in your FIRST season!