My team for this last season all consisted of second-years (including me). At a competition, we were asked by a team what drive base we had (H or X). We didn’t have any specific drive base in mind when building- we just put together whatever worked. With that being said, I think it’d be a good idea…

H drive is where you have 2 sides of parallel wheels (like a car) and possibly a perpendicular wheel in the center for strafe. [image] X drive is where each wheel is offset 45 degrees from the front of the bot like this: [image] Then there’s also mecanum drive which is set up like H drive but al…

[image] Wiki VEX V5 General Discussion Overview of common chassis types How could we help a new team to choose a chassis for the robot? It is very important to select the proper drivetrain for your robot. You need to consider specifics of the game. Your dr…

Be aware that mecanums must be arranged a certain way to make them work

Drive Base

VEX V5 General Discussion General Forum

2775Josh March 31, 2020, 8:27pm 4

This thread goes more in depth if you want to read more about different drive bases.