Thread: crab drive vs. mecanum drive system
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Re: crab drive vs. mecanum drive system
A well built crab/swerve will beat a mechanum drive in most, if not all cases. The only problem is that to successfully build a crab/swerve drive you need to have good machining capability, and really good programming.

A mechanum drive system is much easier to manufacture since there are no custom parts needed except for the wheels, and programming should not be extremely difficult due to the fact that you do not need to have feedback loops.

All of the mechanum systems that I have seen have had 4 motors. From my understanding of mechanum, if you only put two motors on the system, you basically have a tank drive.
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