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Re: Holonomic + gyro/PID

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Originally Posted by kamocat View Post
I know in 2009, team 1983 Skunkworks used swerve drive. They didn't have continuous-turn potentiometers, and so when they needed to turn past a certain point, they would flip the module 180 degrees and reverse the direction of their drive motors. It worked surprisingly smoothly, but that may be in part due to the low coefficient of friction.
Do you know where they positioned the discontinuity?

I'm certainly not recommending this, but suppose for example they located it at the 12 o'clock (straight-ahead) position. I can imagine a lot of weird wheel movement going on when trying to drive straight ahead with small directional changes. So I wonder where's the best place to put it. Perhaps it depends on the game played played.