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Re: Mecanum or Swerve?

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Originally Posted by Laaba 80 View Post
I admit that I have never programmed a mecanum drive, but I dont see it being easy to program. Sure, maybe the basic movements are simple, however I have seen few mechanum drive robots that are controlled effectively. This tells me that either the drivers dont know how to reap the benefits of a mecanum drive, or that the drive code is not up to par.

I programmed an omni drive robot in 08, and by no means was it easy, and it was nowhere near as controllable as I hoped.
I am not a programmer, so this is based off of what I have heard from the rest of my team.

Easy to program is relative to swerve drive programming. But still, programming a successful mecanum drive is fairly simple with a few modifications to the default code.
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