Thread: Strategic Uses of Swerve Drive
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Re: Strategic Uses of Swerve Drive
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Originally Posted by Ken Patton View Post
Another example was Wildstang 2005 which could do a "drive-by" pickup of tetrahedrons from the side of the field.
I find it hilarious that one of your examples of a "mechanism that lends itself to a swerve drive" was on one of the only Wildstang robots that didn't have one...

Maybe Raul didn't get the memo?

Rather than believe that to be possible, my theory is that Raul just wanted to make his programmers parallel park on a vision tetra in autonomous mode to pick it up, then parallel park on a goal to score it.

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