Swerve Drive Modules

[akeisic]

Guess what team choose NOT to use a swerve drive this year? Wildstang! And it's practically been there signature for years.

It's typically about what goes on top of the drive train that makes the difference. Glad to see you're working the details BEFORE the season starts.

[staplemonx]

Has anyone ever build a two wheel swerve drive with omni's on the corners? Make the swerve wheels 2 or 3 inch wide on the center.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by staplemonx

Has anyone ever build a two wheel swerve drive with omni's on the corners? Make the swerve wheels 2 or 3 inch wide on the center.

I seem to remember a team doing something like that in 2008, can't name the team though. I would be careful about making the wheels 2/3 inches wide because the wider grippier wheels make rotating the modules more difficult.

[Gdeaver]

The current design shows several problems. It is not easy to make a module that can hold up to some serious stress. We have done swerve for 2 years now and this link will show a design that has proven very durable.
http://wiki.team1640.com/index.php?t...II_Drive_Train
It's only May. You have several months to refine the design.

[Ryan Himmelblau]

Originally Posted by akeisic

Guess what team choose NOT to use a swerve drive this year? Wildstang! And it's practically been there signature for years.

It's typically about what goes on top of the drive train that makes the difference. Glad to see you're working the details BEFORE the season starts.

The reason we chose 6wd this year was purely based off our strategy for this year's game. We deemed early in the build season that for this year, speed was far more important than maneuverability.

Every drive system has it's advantages and disadvantages. You should base your drive train decision off what will complete the task at hand the best, not on what is cool or different or easy.

During our initial brainstorming seasons we had at one time 8 different drive systems up that we were considering. Hooray for double sided white boards!