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Re: 6 CIM Drivetrains... What's Your Experience?

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Originally Posted by Oblarg View Post
Find a surface on which you know the CoF of the wheels to reasonable accuracy, get a high-speed camera (or accelerometer), and measure the acceleration/current draw of the robot running at full power pushing various objects whose dynamic friction on that surface has been measured?

Not perfect, obviously, and rather time-consuming, but it should give you something to compare against theory.
Here's the theory to compare it to.

Adjust Kro, Krv, and Kf until the model matches the test data.