pic: 1675's REAL IRI Upgrade

[apalrd]

Originally Posted by Duke461

...Because im pretty sure the big name teams (...148...) have never used mecanum.

JVN disagrees with your statement. (And he says 148 hates mecanum).

I don't know what other teams do, but we don't look at drive systems first. We look at game strategy. We don't look at 6wd vs 8wd vs swerve vs mecanum vs slide vs nonadrive, we look at if the ability to translate sideways is a significant advantage, then factor that into our weighted decision matrix (the larger the advantage, the higher drive systems incorporating that will get more ranking points).

For us, the ability to train drivers to use a 6/8wd well has always led us to find the sideways translation to not be significantly helpful, except in the two years we convinced ourselves it was an advantages and built a swerve (and regretted it both times... One year we hated it so much we replaced the swerve pods with fixed wheels after the first competition)