Modular Drive System

[Woolly]

Originally Posted by MrBasse

To do that it has to be available to everyone, everywhere. That is a heck of an undertaking if they want it to stay the way it is as they designed it.

On the upside, this would have to be rebuilt anyway to make it suitable for FRC use, right?

Absolutely!
Though, this may just be me, but if I'm going to build modular drive units, and I have experience with CAN bus encoder feedback control, I would build swerve modules that aren't specific to which corner of the robot it's placed on, such that I could build 6 modules per robot I build and have spares that can be placed on in the event of a module failure.
Otherwise, I would look at maybe an octocanum system that uses pneumatics to switch between the mecanum wheel and a traction wheel.
Experience tells me that Mecanum doesn't exactly help you in the eliminations draft, as teams get wary of defense being played on you or you being unable to play defense.