Thread: Examples of when it is not advantageous to be lightweight
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Re: Examples of when it is not advantageous to be lightweight
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Originally Posted by yash101 View Post
i want to do pathfinding this year, and I've figured out that it would be extremely important for the robot to by capable of changing directions quickly and accelerating quickly, so that the robot will be able to follow the path and change paths with almost no smoothing and any overhead of acceleration time.

I think that this means that the robot will need:
-Tons of power in the drivetrain
-Lightweight
-COG: Center, at the bottom!
What you have here is a great recipe for spinning wheels. Would that make accurate path-finding more or less difficult to implement successfully?

Bonus question: how does wheel tread selection play into your goals?
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