FRC T-bone-ing and Hexagonal drive

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by nuclearnerd

An easier way to reduce the chance of getting T-boned is to move the turning center closer to the front or back of the offensive robot.... using permanent or drop-down omni wheels (as suggested earlier), or with swerve drives. Those features allow an offensive robot to "pick and roll" off a T-Bone pin.

That's my understanding of things anyway. I'd be interested to hear if other people of different theories or data.

Using permanent omni wheels to allow you to roll off of a T-bone pin may be jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. If you move your center of rotation very far towards one end of the robot, you are making yourself more susceptible to being steered from the other end by an opposing robot.