pic: Micro Swerve Module Drive Train

[Taylor]

Maybe I'm missing something. VEX offers a swerve drive kit; one could easily be built with 5 or 6 motors.

[micro]

This is incredibly well done. I hope you put the CAD up so others can see what you did. I'm trying to teach the new freshman to Cad and this is the perfect example of what I hope they can do someday.

[Andrew Remmers]

Originally Posted by Taylor

Maybe I'm missing something. VEX offers a swerve drive kit; one could easily be built with 5 or 6 motors.

Yes I am aware of this fact but the level of dexterity and flexibility required by NARs robot designs needs something far more space efficient. We have yet to find a decent acceptable way of doing a swerve without adding lots of interestingly complex mechanisms to allow us to get the same performance out of a swerve compared to one of our x holo drives or tank drives.

I've been wanting to build a vex swerve for a while and I'm sure it will be done eventually just so far we haven't been happy with our solutions to the problem yet.

[Taylor]

Sorry, my comment wasn't meant toward the OP. It was directed toward the people who were asking about swerve use in VRC.

[Brandon Zalinsky]

Any idea what the weight would look like for this?

[Andrew Remmers]

Originally Posted by Flak-Bait

Any idea what the weight would look like for this?

This set up here is roughly 37 lbs (including some left electronics left out of the render) Those electronics consisted of enough talon motor controllers to power the machine. They were removed because polygon counts were through the roof.