Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.

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Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.

View Poll Results: How mecanum drive effects a teams position on your pick list
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02-09-2014, 15:43

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Re: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.

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Originally Posted by efoote868

In my experience, this isn't a problem in the 2 minutes required to run a match.

You may want to qualify that with "in my experience with very low drift". I have seen large amounts of drift absolutely ruin a robot's ability to move reliably. Like always, strict tolerances are needed for a control system like this.

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