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Re: 6 Wheel Drive vs. 8 Wheel Drive

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Originally Posted by Gray Adams View Post
I'm curious, has anyone built a robot that can either be 6 or 8 wheel and tried driving it? Maybe you guys are a lot better at balancing your center of mass, but it seems pretty hard for us to compare wheel numbers and center drops because all of our robots are so different in the superstructure. It gets really hard to tell what is causing the different behaviors.
Well, technically our 2007 robot was built with the option to take out the 4th wheel on each side and drive around on 6 wheels.

I think the best comparison between two robots has been our 2011 and our 2007. They were incredibly similar.

We experimented with the 8WD for one season and didn't really like it or think it was worth it, so we went back to 6WD.
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