15-02-2010, 20:00
|
 |
no bag, vex only, final destination
AKA: Pinecone
 FRC #0228 (GUS Robotics); FRC #2170 (Titanium Tomahawks) Team Role: Mentor
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 7,675
|
|
|
What Pushed You Toward Mecanum Drive This Season?
I have a question for the many, many teams that have posted mecanum drives this year. I have no ulterior motive or anything like that.
While it's only my 1st build season on Chief Delphi, the amount of posted robots with mecanum wheels is a lot higher than I ever expected this game to produce.
What decisions did your team make that motivated you to decide to build a mecanum drivebase? What advantages did you consider important and why? What disadvantages did you not consider important and why not?
Any thoughts on the matter will be appreciated. My team's drive base is locked in for this year; I am not trying to use this thread in place of my own decision making. I am curious as to how others are thinking when they decide to pick this style of drivetrain. Thanks!
-Chris
__________________
Mentor / Drive Coach: 228 (2016-?)
...2016 Waterbury SFs (with 3314, 3719), RIDE #2 Seed / Winners (with 1058, 6153), Carver QFs (with 503, 359, 4607)
Mentor / Consultant Person: 2170 (2017-?)
---
College Mentor: 2791 (2010-2015)
...2015 TVR Motorola Quality, FLR GM Industrial Design
...2014 FLR Motorola Quality / SFs (with 341, 4930)
...2013 BAE Motorola Quality, WPI Regional #1 Seed / Delphi Excellence in Engineering / Finalists (with 20, 3182)
...2012 BAE Imagery / Finalists (with 1519, 885), CT Xerox Creativity / SFs (with 2168, 118)
Student: 1714 (2009) - 2009 Minnesota 10,000 Lakes Regional Winners (with 2826, 2470)
2791 Build Season Photo Gallery - Look here for mechanism photos My Robotics Blog (Updated April 11 2014)
|