oh yeah, and one more thing. The rear two wheels on our robot pivot in order to conform to the ramp (we actually won the industrial design award at UTC for that). This helps our bot to stay on target even if it hits the ramp at an angle when going 12 ft/s. Its also pretty sweet to be able to spin in a circle even if we're straddling one of the angled drop offs at the top of the ramp
[edit] here's a picture http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...&quiet=verbose
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I think that in order to get there really quickly, you need to be running on four motors. I've seen bots that can go faster than us using only two motors, but the time required for acceleration negates their maximum possible speed because of the limited amount of space.
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