paper: 1625 Swerve Through the Ages

[Hawiian Cadder]

I saw a teaser of the 6wd swerve a while ago, its nice to see how it really works, the 45 degree swerve module is crazy, i would love to see it work.

[IKE]

Thank you so much for posting this. I hope other teams will follow your lead.

I would love to hear/see more discussion of your 2007 season. I feel this is important as it would be a frank discussion over FYSS (First Year Swerve Syndrome). Most teams that would like to emulate your success (you guys are great role models) should also understand the difficulty that first year is likely to bring.

[Aren_Hill]

Originally Posted by IKE

Thank you so much for posting this. I hope other teams will follow your lead.

I would love to hear/see more discussion of your 2007 season. I feel this is important as it would be a frank discussion over FYSS (First Year Swerve Syndrome). Most teams that would like to emulate your success (you guys are great role models) should also understand the difficulty that first year is likely to bring.

In 2007 we ended up having < 5min or so of actual drive time before competition, obviously not optimal for your first time with swerve. The auxiliary ended up not being too competitive so we ended up playing defense and being fairly good at it. What most people don't know about st. louis regional in 2007 was that most of the time I didn't know which way was forward due too our robot being completely symmetrical on 2 axes.

We threw the steering chain a few times due to some sloppy manufacturing and alignment stuff.

It was also a 3speed dewalt setup, which playing defense we stayed in low gear the majority of the time which was 3.5fps free speed...which happened to be just fast enough to stay between the opponent and the rack.

So I think we did decently well with it for the first time ever doing swerve in competition.

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by Hawiian Cadder

I saw a teaser of the 6wd swerve a while ago, its nice to see how it really works, the 45 degree swerve module is crazy, i would love to see it work.

The great thing about that teaser -- it doesn't appear that the 45-degree module has any 'magic' behind it other than specific sheet metal work. Even though there are issues with angled tread like they have, it's a very creative approach to reducing the number of moving parts imo. I too would love to see a working concept.