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FTC 3507 Robo Theosis -- FRC 3135
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FRC #3135 (Robotic Colonels)
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Re: [FTC]: Tri-Wheel design

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Originally Posted by ArtemusMaximus View Post
Yeah, I've seen your split wheel design, looks impressive. However, I did see that your wheels stick on upper-mid bars. Did you sort out that problem?

We are rookie team and don't have much to start with. Definitely no CNC for us . It does look like even veteran teams are struggling with this season game.
These wheels were not that difficult to make, or that expensive either. We may even still try and improve on this design too.

Even though the curve transition from flat to round was was enlarged to improve shape for better corner release from under the churros as wheels go past them, they still will get somewhat stuck, depending on how well they are. or aren't, kept laterally in sync, but we can always re-sync them on the fly well enough to un-stick them and resume climbing. In autonomous, monitoring the sync status and making sync adjustments may prove too difficult though.

In teleop we always seem to quickly get high enough to place our dual winch hooks with our single joint swing arm though.

-Dick Ledford
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