[Jared Russell]

Sensitivity to carpet variation is somewhat dependent on your drivetrain geometry and dynamics. A 6 wheel drive, dropped-center robot with a roughly central CoM and hard wheels is going to turn pretty similarly on a wide variety of floor surfaces. Meanwhile, a 4 wheel drive robot with a long wheelbase and pneumatic wheels may scrub quite differently depending on carpet.

Ideally your PID algorithm can be tuned to compensate for various types of floor conditions (after all, well-worn vs. brand new field carpet can be quite different in its own right!). If you are able to control your robot on a couple different types of surfaces at home (including whatever you have that is most similar to the field surface), you ought to be good when you get to competition.