4256 Cyborg Cats, i think they’re Houston.
Add 2067 (Detroit) to that list. They qualified at NE DCMP.
2771 (Detroit) I believe
1640 (detroit)
Add 323 to that list, they use a custom swerve as well. Sadly, they did not qualify for champs.
If you are interesting I have been in charge of the design of swerve on 2067 for 2 years and will be giving a presentation on it on Wednesday. Also feel free to stop by our pits and check out our modules.
Updated list of swerve drive teams that are going to champs:
- 16 - Bomb Squad (Houston)
- 33 - Killer Bees (Detroit)
- 141 - WOBOT (Detroit)
- 272 - Cyber-Crusaders (Detroit)
- 1323 - MadTown Robotics (Houston)
- 1533 - Triple Strange (Houston)
- 1720 - PhyXTGears (Detroit)
- 2067 - Apple Pi (Detroit)
- 2481 - Roboteers (Detroit)
- 2767 - Stryke Force (Detroit)
- 2771 - Code Red Robotics the Stray Dogs (Detroit)
- 2910 - Jack in the Bot (Houston)
- 3990 - Tech for Kids (Detroit)
- 4256 - Cyborg Cats (Houston)
- 4458 - Infernobotix (Detroit)
- 5006 - Apophis (Houston)
Quite an interesting lot!
I won’t miss you presentation for sure!
Will you give out samples??? :rolleyes: 
:yikes: LOL
Can’t speak for 2220, but can speak for 2169. In 2014 we tried to make a swerve drive robot with purchased swerve modules. To put it nicely, the modules were not ideal. They were heavy, they ran horizontal chain (which was problematic to say the least), there weren’t any good places to mount encoders, they conducted lots of static and killed tons of encoders, etc. Using purchased modules was an issue. If you’re going to build a swerve drive, make custom modules.
However, creating custom swerve modules is rather difficult. If you want to do it in a Build Season, machining capabilities are a must. Our fatal flaw: we have zero CNC/Machining capabilities. Over the summer we attempted to make a set of swerve modules using our bandsaw and drill press, and we found it to be possible, but incredibly time consuming and difficult. Besides, unless you have lots of experience with Swerve, and have a driver who is heavily experienced in swerve drives, if you take the resources you would put into a swerve drive into your mechanisms, and put that all on a sturdy WCD, you’ll probably be better off.
Here is the list of teams that I know have competed or developed a swerve drive at some point in time but have dropped or shelved the technology. I have added, in parenthesis, whether the team will be at Champs this year:
- 11 - MORT (Detroit)
- 67 - The HOT Team (Detroit)
- 71 - Team Hammond 71 (Detroit)
- 111 - Wildstang
- 114 - Eaglestrike
- 118 - Robonauts (Houston)
- 148 - Robowranglers (Houston)
- 587 - Hedgehogs
- 696 - Circuit Breakers
- 1625 - Winnovation (Detroit)
- 1717 - D’Penguineers (has not competed since 2015)
- 2220 - Blue Twilight (Detroit)
- 2054 - Tech Vikes (Detroit)
- 2167 - Radical Tech
- 2169 - KING TeC (Detroit)
- 2177 - The Robettes (Detroit)
- 2220 - Blue Twilight (Detroit)
- 2451 - PWNAGE (Detroit)
- 3928 - Team Neutrino (Detroit)
- 5817 - Uni-Rex (Houston)
Suggested changes, deletions and additions welcomed.
Just a note: 111 is HOF and even though they didn’t qualify through their regionals they will still be joining us at Detroit.
For the first time since 2007, MORT will not be attending a championship event. RIP
Noted!
In PNW 3024 has used swerve in the past but did not this year.
They will not be in Detroit, then… Sad… and noted!
2471 used to use swerve drive.
Another PNW team that’s used swerve in the past is Skunkworks, 1983. They will be at Houston champs in the Roebling division.
EDIT: fixed division, whoops!
Some others I know of: (and when I know it was fielded)
51/47 (Detroit, makers of the first drive that at all resembled crab/swerve in FRC in 1999)
234 (Detroit, fielded in 2010 and 2015)
461 (fielded in non-swerve controls in 2006, a fresh design was built and fielded in the 2016 offseason)
971 (Houston (used in an offseason refresh in the early 2010’s, possible fielded in a later season or two?)
1114 (Detroit, fielded in 2003, their rookie year)
1730 (Houston, fielded in 2010)
1741 (Detroit, fielded in 2017)
1986 (Houston, fielded in 2010)
2783 (Detroit, fielded in 2009, their rookie year. AFAIK the first “unicorn” swerve ever fielded (fully independent steering and wheel power), but as of 2011’s offseason (the last time I was involved, one of my last projects with the team), it never actually had well-working code. Maybe somebody made it sing later?)
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1075 made a fully invertible swerve drive in 2010:
They no longer do swerve, which qualifies them for this thread. But also, this is a very unique design. I gotta tell you, 2010 was a year of surprises. Fun year to be involved in FRC.
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We had custom 2-speed swerve in 2015.
We dropped them for a few reasons:
-too heavy
-requires at least 8 motors/controllers
-takes a lot of space
-learning to drive is harder than tank drive
-takes too long to implement, i’d rather have a working WCD a week earlier.
-our budget doesn’t allow it anymore
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