Thread: Mecanum or Swerve?
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Re: Mecanum or Swerve?
In my six years of competing in FIRST I don't remember a single mecanum robot ever dominating a competition.

The powerhouse teams have built swerves, tank-drives, and more unusual designs like 71's shuffler and the 148/217 nonadrives. But I can't remember any of the top teams EVER using mecanum.

I can only think of a few cases in which a mecanum robot even won a competition.

Why is this?

Is it simply two difficult to write controllable code?
Are they just too inefficient?
Not enough lateral traction?
Or has the mecanum drive simply never been perfected?

I've seen those mecanum forklifts, I know what the technology is capable of...
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