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08-01-2011, 01:25

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Re: pic: Team 2220's Swerve Drive Chasis

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Originally Posted by Ether

I'm not convinced this is true. It seems to me that, with smart enough software, swerve (of the Unicorn variety anyway) should be almost as seamless in its motions as a well-designed mecanum... and without the traction disadvantages of mecanum.

This is based on my experience driving a non-Unicorn chassis, yeah. Moving a tank drive robot with robot-centric controls is trivial. A swerve, absolutely not, especially if you are responsible for module rotation.

My "ideal" swerve would have a field centric "point the modules this way" stick and a robot centric everything else... I think.

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