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Fastest FRC Robot?
I couldn't find a thread post anywhere discussing this so I was wondering, to the best of everyone's knowledge, what was the fastest robot in FRC History? If you're aware of the robots FPS or any other interesting features about their drivetrain then please feel free to list them, thanks!
My current guess would be 148 in 2008 but I'm not entirely sure. |
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Team 102 was capable of going 27 fps in 2008, of course, they couldn't actually reach that speed on the FRC field.
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254 in 2011? Was underweight and geared for 21FPS? If i remember.
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Our minibot on a horizontal surface ;)
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Citrus Circuits were geared for 22 fps this year.
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I vote that this thread reports Actual FPS as measured on the field, not what the gearbox was "capable" of. |
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it drove laps autonomously in auto with obstructions, but again, it never made it to comp, so I never got to see how well that would have worked in real competition. |
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I've always been annoyed when people say "Geared for [XX]". Is that according to the JVN spreadsheet? or is that actually measured? Simulated another way? |
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Any other number I think is only valid if actually measured, or from a team that has measured several of their similar drives and has decent enough friction parameters to estimate future drives. |
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Without any standardized benchmarks to test completed drivetrains, I have no problem with "geared to" comparisons. It's still the most useful shorthand to compare different drive speeds.
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The point others are making is that in absence of good data on friction, teams should report free speed as that is a more clear comparison to others. TLDR; I'd rather have someones idealized (frictionless) numbers than their BS guess at friction. |
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Fastest means something quite different on our team:
How long does it take to travel X ft from a standing stop? Where X depends on the game as each one has a different typical "sprint" length. I don't think we've geared for a specific top speed in a long time. As a result, we probably have some of the "slowest" robots in FRC...:confused: |
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That being said, I would be surprised if the highest top speed of a robot was not one of the sprint bots of '08. Those little fellas looked nigh-uncontrollable. |
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I think I remember playing with a team last year who told me their robot was geared for 26fps. I am also pretty sure that they only had a single speed transmission.
What I definitely remember was how long it took them to travel short distances. Frankly, I was not impressed. Their reasoning was that, even though they knew they would never reach this speed, that the increased acceleration from this arrangement would be beneficial. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to explain to them why their reasoning was flawed. What I should have done is asked them why, by that reasoning, they didn't gear their robot for 100fps. |
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