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Re: Effective Drive Base

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
All the strafing of holonomic or swerve in the world isn't worth anything other robots violently push you across the floor (holonomic) or if your drive breaks (swerve)

My personal favorite for this year (not tied to any teams i'm working with) is a hang up between 3 different skid steer designs.
But if you had a well practiced driver, wouldn't it be easy to avoid other robots with a holonomic drive base? unless of course a couple of robots decided to go into your field area...

Also, rules say a robot can only be pinned for a maximum of 5 seconds.

Also with holonomic, you can just forget about traversing. If it's even important to your strategy.
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