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06-11-2013, 15:52

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Re: Mecanum Drivetrains

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

The exception to this was in 2012 - Mecanums were practically DNP for me due to their difficulty with the bridges.

I would put our 2012 driver using mecanums against any other robot in terms of bridge balancing. We nick named him "bridge-dancer" that year because he could do fancy manuevers on the bridge, including driving across while turning 90 degrees to accomplish a triple balance.

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