Video of Mecanum Drive Running Circles Around 6 Wheel Drives

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Originally Posted by gabrielau23

Even last year there were problems. If you were balancing with another robot that had mecanums, you always had to push them up. And if you went too far towards the mecanum's side, the probability of a balance just went down since there was no way the mecanums were going to be able to push a 120+lb. 'bot up the bridge.

I will have to disagree with this post. Last year we were one of the fastest robots at balancing both single and double with mecanum. WE were the ones that pushed robots up the bridge. I'm sure you had a bad experience playing with bad mecanums at your regionals but you can't generalize that all mecanum are this way. Here's a video of us lining up, lowering the bridge, and balancing all in around 4 seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWYN5xVIyzw&t=11m1s

Originally Posted by gabrielau23

Our driver was EXCELLENT, so we had very few problems lining up to take shots, and we usually were able to hit 3 cycles on a bad match. Something I can tell you right now is that I really didn't see any mecanums utilize their maneuverability well enough to offset the disadvantages of us being able to
a. Either push right through them
or
b. Hit them on our way back and forth from the stations and screw up their shot occasionally.

With Mecanum at our last competition we were hitting 5 cycles with heavy defense and 7 without.