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Unread 08-01-2003, 19:40
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If you were to do that, it would involve calculating the surface areas, normal forces, coefficeints of friction, weights, and a lot of other stuff for ALL moving parts of your robot. It's not worth the trouble.
Your math problem is just a typical unconstrained optimization question, nothing to get excited about.