Swerve Drive 101 with Clem McKown from FRC 1640 and Jeremy Zang from FRC 694 - Stuy Splash 2020

Part of the 2020 Stuy Splash lecture series. Be sure to check out the rest of the series! Jeremy Zang has been studying and designing swerve drives for his entire FRC career. He will explain the basics of swerve and what all the design choices, options, and trade offs are when you decide to design and build a swerve drive. FRC 1640 has built swerve drives since 2010 and have built a swerve robot every year except 2016. They make it a little better every year. Clem McKown will explain what he and his team have learned through their various iterations over the course of the last 10 years.