Thread: Why swerve is better than Holonomic... HELP
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Re: Why swerve is better than Holonomic... HELP
For my presentation on drive trains that I do for our technical conference in Oregon, FIRSTFare, I count up the types of drive trains used by the finalists and winners of the Championship divisions. 2009 was a weird game so setting that aside, 2008 is the last year with useful data. Here are the totals:

14 Six Wheel
2 Six Wheel with omnis
2 Four wheel with omnis
2 Mecanum
2 Crab Drive
1 Four wheel rack and pinion

This was just from the info I could glean from looking at pictures of these robots so I can't claim this to be 100% right but it's close.

Keep in mind that was a very different game than this year so I'm not sure how much weight to put on this. It was also only the second year that Mecanum was widely available from AM and the first year they had 6" Mecanum wheels.
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