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Re: Supershifters and Mechanum wheels

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Originally Posted by sdcantrell56 View Post
Just to add to this conversation...unless it is a particularly special case (2011 our first pick at north Carolina had them) , any team with mecanum wheels is automatically off our pick list. In fact the only thing our pit scouts do is create a list of all mecanum robots.
Why? What is so bad about them?
The only disadvantage I have seen with them is that they are relatively slow strafing versus a swerve.

Our interface was with one joystick (easier and less confusing) with the top two left and right buttons for rotation. We simply put a constant that we were comfortable with.

And they are a simple easy option for relatively new teams for omindirectional movement. Swerve requires a lot of resources, and frankly with a few sacrifices, mecanum is right up there with them...
 


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