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Re: Most Graceful Mecanum Robots?

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Originally Posted by NShep98 View Post
A moon maneuver is a move in which you "orbit" around a fixed point, often an opposing robot, while facing that point at all times, much like the moon orbiting the Earth.
I was staying away from this thread until this. I love driving this maneuver in video games and robot demos. It's pretty fun. However, have yet to see it give an advantage in any FRC match videos.

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This year Mecanum seems to give the most advantage during line up of receiving a gear and placing a gear. In field-centric mode, it does so by increasing margin of error and intuitiveness to do those tasks. The most graceful Mecanum bots this year will do just that, IMO. Juke moves with Mecanum under-perform 9 times out of 10.

In my experience, Mecanum doesn't seem to reduce the time it takes to do those tasks when compared to a practiced driver on a tank. Time is the differentiator in everything at high levels of play. I'd even say that a tank drive which sprints 16-18ft/s during the straightaways and shifts to a 6-7ft/s low gear for the line-up would still be a faster cycle time than a Mecanum drive at an overall 12-13ft/s.

So "graceful" Mecanum bots who can score well in a reasonable amount of time may find a home on my alliance in early events simply because I set goals for my team to do so well at our singular role that the Mecanum bot will be largely undefended. Or maybe I get that Mecanum bot on my alliance in order to absorb the defense since they're so easy to defend. Who knows .
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