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Re: Turning Quality Metrics

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-John

PS - For those that don't know, Chris is (imho) the "turning master" -- he wrote one of the best whitepapers in the history of Chief Delphi, back when most people were building 2WD or 4WD robots, and many of those teams who did 4WD couldn't get them to turn worth a dang.
John,

I've reviewed the 4WD paper these past few days. It seems to me that 4WD is not as forgiving on center of mass as 6WD. That is a great paper... I'm tempted to take the starting equations into a dynamic direction for actual simulation.