Thread: Maneuverability
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Unread 23-01-2011, 20:38
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Maneuverability

Regardless of the type of drive train, what determines a robot's maneuverability?Is it the speed, traction, acceleration or something else? I made the PWM output an exponential function and I currently capped the max PWM output of the robot at around 50% of the full capacity. So it goes really slow at the beginning and faster at the end. Everyone pretty much says that the handling is great, but we are only maxing out at around 9.3 f/s. Is that just hurting ourselves by having a slower bot? Is there any other way to have great handling of the bot without sacrificing speed?
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