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Re: [FTC]: Drive Platform- Design Exercise

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Originally Posted by DavisDad View Post
We sketched a design where the motors are set forward and battery is at front. Even this does not put the CoM in the "safe zone".
Have you moved your arm fully forward and/or down? That could move your CoM a good bit.

Another thing that might help would be to make your wheelbase (distance between axle centers) a multiple of the churro spacing (4.8"?). This would keep you from rocking back and forth as you climb, though you would need a bit of extra torque as you come up out of a trough. In order to do this and remain under the size limit and not fall into the spaces, you may have to have more than one plane of wheels on each side.
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Last edited by GeeTwo : 25-09-2015 at 13:51. Reason: Another thing
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