Help with swerve drive.

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Originally Posted by Benj895

• Efficient (What's the best way to the chain the wheels together?)

Originally Posted by Ether

If you chain the wheels together, it's not really a swerve.

Agreed. Assuming that you're planning to point all of the wheels in the same direction with one chain, and drive them all at the same speed with a second chain, that's what's usually called crab drive on CD.

The big problem with this form of drive is that you don't have a good way for the robot to rotate (e.g. so as to face a game piece or goal). I've never seen a post which provides a name for a crab drive with a robot that rotates atop it posted, but in my own thoughts, I've dubbed it a dizzy drive.