Thread: Maneuverability
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Re: Maneuverability

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Originally Posted by davidthefat View Post
Is there any other way to have great handling of the bot without sacrificing speed?
Teach your drivers how to drive the robot at a higher speed?

Realistically, a robots maneuverability is a product of all of the things you listed above. Without knowing more about the specifics of the drive-train it's relatively difficult to tell you what will help aside from more practice.

Though, using the information you've given, I'd imagine that you could program the robot in such a way that it would normally max out around 50% signal (9.3FPS) then at the push of a button or flick of a switch the driver would have access to the full speed of the drive.
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