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Re: Issues with Drivebase

The design of the rest of the robot may make it so that some specific type of drivetrain is more better than another. Having a robot that cannot carry a stack of totes without dropping them seems to be a common problem this year...I don't know if modifying the drivetrain is enough to overcome this? Driver practice is helpful, and making changes to the control system can help, too. It could be that using omni wheels is a good way to deal with it. We did have some problems with dropping totes, but I really can't blame the drivetrain, since we didn't design our robot to restrain the totes. For our RC operations, the 6wd kit chassis worked just fine. We were able to move and place stacks of two totes successfully many times, with the top tote just resting on the bottom one.