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Re: crab drive vs. mecanum drive system
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Originally Posted by JesseK
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It's all about how you use the drive train. A 6-wheel drive train has shortcomings when attempting maneuvers, especially in autonomous. For great examples of what I'm talking about, look at Wildstang's 2007 and 2009 robots. Both autonomous routines used maneuvers with swerve that would have probably been much less accurate (statistically) than had the maneuvers been performed with skid -- especially in 2009.
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I have a better example: I could easily argue that what we were able to do in 2003 in autonomous was both, extremely advantageous, and almost impossible to do without Crab steering.
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Warning: this reply is just an approximation of what I meant to convey - engineers cannot possibly use just written words to express what they are thinking.
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