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Re: What Pushed You Toward Mecanum Drive This Season?
Note: This season, I am only helping one team, 3044. This team is in its second year, and is not using a mecanum or other holonomic drive.
The field is split into three subfields with aspect ratios that are much wider than they are deep. You'd therefore expect that side to side movement would be favored, and non-holonomic drives would spend more time in that axis.
Ball movement is along the other axis, and therefore you'd expect non-holonomic drives to be in that orientation more often.
This disjoint is what favors mecanums. It allows a team to move the robot left to right while moving the ball up and down. It also removes the need to re-orient after capturing a ball.
I expect this is why we see so many mecanums this year.
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