[brennonbrimhall]

Originally Posted by asid61

Exellent driving in that match! You definitely look faster than you are.

Thinking about acceleration, if you could take the battery load then you could "warm up" the motors by spinning in place until it's time to move.

Most teams don't "spin in place" because that is also known as "stalling your motors."

One thing to note is that acceleration apparently barely changes from 10fps to 20fps. One parent on our team made me a spreadsheet (with graphs) that detailed acceleration given motor specs and robot weight, although it did not include friction in the calculations. It showed that for speeds up to ~30fps the distance vs. time was almost the same. By going at lower speeds you would get an advantage on the order of a few inches.

Increasing the number of cims did help acceleration a lot, but nothing else except robot weight helped that much (according to the spreadsheet).

A look at Ether's Drivetrain Acceleration Model might be worthwhile.