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Originally Posted by =Martin=Taylor=
In my six years of competing in FIRST I don't remember a single mecanum robot ever dominating a competition.
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I'm not exactly sure how my team did this year but we dominated FIRST Overdrive in 2008 with a mecanum robot, before FIRST Nationals we had a 30-1-0 record and two regional victories. It was an incredible design for turning around that track as we could essentially rotate around are front left wheel to make incredibly sharp turns. It also helped that we had a driver that also flew RC planes at a national level.
I understand that Lone Star and Bayou are considered to be "easier" regionals but we controlled that competition from our very first match. At nationals we had some code and design issues that prevented us from success... We gave in to the temptation to fix something that was already working.
But overall I love the mecanum drive train and watching one work is a beautiful demonstration of force vectors
