Who is using swerve for aerial assist and why

[Nemo]

Originally Posted by cad321

I too have been considering an octanum drive to great length and feel it would be the best of both worlds. My team does not have the time or experience with swerve mechanisms to develop one in 6 weeks, however we feel that being omni directional would help us a lot. By going with an octanum drive it challenges us opposed to the past 3-4 years of a standard tank setup without having to do something overly complex.

Octocanum seems good too, but not as good as swerve. I like strafing for catching, and the defense is going to be trying to shove you when you are trying to catch. Octocanum can't strafe and have traction at the same time, but swerve can. But I still like Octocanum for this game for a team that can come up with one without sacrificing their ability to create a well-iterated set of scoring mechanisms.

[cad321]

Originally Posted by Nemo

Octocanum seems good too, but not as good as swerve. I like strafing for catching, and the defense is going to be trying to shove you when you are trying to catch. Octocanum can't strafe and have traction at the same time, but swerve can. But I still like Octocanum for this game for a team that can come up with one without sacrificing their ability to create a well-iterated set of scoring mechanisms.

Although it is true that you cannot have traction at the exact same time as you are strafing, once you are in position to catch it is just the push of a button and you have immense traction. I understand that it would be nice to have that traction 24/7, but for a team that doesn't have the ability to make a swerve, its gotta be the next best thing IMO.

[Tyler2517]

At the end of our season swerve both saved our team and destroyed it. We did not use that much machine time from our shop. We got funding for the development of the swerve drive alone. The biggest resorese draw was not machining or even programming but a few of our high performance students left to go machine it leaving the rest of the robot in a mad house. In the end it will leave a legacy of something much more advanced then ever before. Something to build on year in and year out.
I think we got farther with a working swerve then if we would have with a better manipulate. Plus the personal reward for completing it is something amazing.