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Its not always a trade off for Maneuverability or traction. Often teams solve this with plastic front wheels that will slide sideways. This works but the plastic wheels don't give the best traction. Im not even sure if the plastic wheel idea would hold up to the steel mesh this year. My teams base has extrem maneuverability and probly one of the highest coefficients of friction from the wheels that I have ever seen in my 4 years of robotics. This is all done on the basic 4 wheel drive princiable. Im not telling how we accomplished this but I will give a hint, im sure some of you will figure it out, 'battle bots do this a lot with there drive train'.
Robots and brakeable objects don't mix, Oh and don't let the little 9th graders that don't know what there doing put a medal ruler in your chain and sprocket setup. ARGGGGG what I have to put up with
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