Mecanum or Swerve?

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Originally Posted by Tom Line

No - at least not by our scouting methods. Mecanum robots are immediately removed from our defensive pic list, as are robots with slick wheels / omni wheels. A decently geared robot with traction wheels will have no problem moving a robot with slick/omni or mechanum out of their way and scoring.

Mechanum are a neat idea (as are omni wheels), but once you bring robot to robot contact into the equation, I'd much rather have robots with traction that won't get pushed out of the way easily.

I have to disagree. This is the third year my team has done mecanum drive, and we were able to play defense well. Defense doesn't necessarily have anything to do with pushing if you're maneuverable enough.

If you want to find an holonomic drive that also has pushing power, you might try over the summer looking into mecanums that have a mechanism which locks all the mech rollers.