Team 5550 - Fall Project

[Kevin Leonard]

Originally Posted by rlance

In last year's game if your robot's goal was to collect balls and put them in the lower goal as fast as possible, wouldn't the 4-omni holonomic be the fastest option. You could easily avoid shoving matches by zipping around the slower robots. Am I missing something in that thinking, because I think "Nick the Brick" poses a good question.

Because "easily avoiding shoving matches" is a lot harder than you're making it sound.

A well driven 4-8 wheel drive is easier to build/program, and just as good as a non-swerve holonomic drivetrain, if not better in 99% of all scenarios in FRC.

Even in 2015, if on Team 20, we could go back and do it again, we would not have gone with a mecanum drive that year, even with the lack of defense. It wasn't necessary, it caused us to spend too much time working on things that weren't scoring mechanisms, and occasionally tethers would get caught in the rollers of the wheels.