[Creator Mat]

Ok for two years now i have been designing a swerve drive for my team and we as a team finally think it is time for our team to design a omni directional drive train (HOORAH). Before now the team was all for swerve drive. However, some members/mentors changed their minds (due to a vex holonomic a student built) feel that a Holonomic drive is the better way for us to go. Manufacturing and programming of these drive trains are not a problem but because of the simplicity of the Holonomic drivetrain these members/ mentors feel that tradeoffs of the Holonomic drive train will be offset by the time we save in the making and programming of it. As the most experienced student left on the team (and head of design) i feel that we will be better served spending our time on the swerve drive but I am at a disadvantage because i can't really "prototype" the swerve (like we did with the vex holonomic) without buying all the parts and actually building it. Due to the majority of these students/mentors being new to FRC i feel they don't understand how much the reduction in pushing power and other weakness of holonomic drive hurts a Robots performance when compared to a swerve drive. Can anyone who has experience driving a holonomic, playing against a holonomic, or has an opionon on the subject give a testimonial about how swerve is better than Holonomic and the making of a swerve drive is the way our team should go.

Thank you very much for your help


Please note: Yes we have built our swerve drive (partially) before so please no warnings about how if you are designing it now it is to late etc...