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Originally Posted by davidthefat
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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Using an exponential function is a great idea but I would not reccomend capping the max speed. Try to derive a new exponential function that gives you the control at low Joystick values that you want (this will help position the robot to place the tube) but still lets you have the top speed for straight line driving (like back to the feeder slot)