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Unread 27-06-2014, 15:23
JorgeReyes JorgeReyes is offline
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Re: Gearing for a Very High Speed

Well here was where I was going with it. If we gear it to 20 fps with 3 cims, then when the robot starts moving the motors could use full power but then since we use thrustmaster joysticks, we could control the power and maybe set it to say 75% after it accelerates by releasing a button so that you get a controllable speed but still get the acceleration. The Low Speed would be full power.

We kind of did this this year with our mecanums. We pressed a button( we called it the turbo button) for full power but then released it so we could go a bit slower when there were obstacles close by.

Edit: Also with our joystick it is a lot easier to control than using logitech controllers and I drove this year so I am pretty confident I should be able to control the robot at these speeds with practice

Last edited by JorgeReyes : 27-06-2014 at 15:26.