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Re: Disadvantages of swerve/crab

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
How many of you guys have built and tested a swerve and compared it to a six wheel?
2079 has kind of done this. We didn't really test any quantitative data, but we have run both in comparison during driver tryouts. The general sentiment from our drivers was that swerve is not as intuitive to drive (it does depend on the programming, but the programming is something that is really hard to get right).

And just from experience of doing both, 2079's 2nd gen swerve broke with much higher frequency than our 1st gen 6WD. Swerve requires a lot more fine tuning before you get it "right".

All 6 wheel drives have a zero turn radius (or at least most). Only well designed swerve drives can do this.

Both designs are good if implemented well, swerve just seems to require more effort to make it work well.
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