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Mecanum or Swerve?

View Poll Results: Swerve or Mecanum? Which does your team prefer?
Mecanum	26	24.53%
Swerve	49	46.23%
Neither, they are too complex and 4wd or 6wd will do the job	31	29.25%
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17-04-2010, 11:27

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Re: Mecanum or Swerve?

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Originally Posted by sgreco

Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I understood you locked your swerve modules in place and skidded in elims at WPI.

That's an interesting and one hundred percent wrong rumor.

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Originally Posted by StuMac

correlation != causation.

Actually, in this case our swerve drive was the reason for our success. Our alliance had two strong offensive robots (230, 20) and we were the strong defensive robot in the opponent's home zone. Without a swerve drive, we would never have been able to defend two robots simultaneously by constantly strafing, out-maneuvering, and out-pushing them.

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