[Scott team 48]

Our team has used treads and wheels in the past. Unfortunately i was not on it when we had treads, although i have driven one of ours with treads and it drives great. There is one main thing i think of when i think of treads and that is a whole lot of friction which can either work for or against you. Traction is good to have when pushing or climbing, but if you have too much then your robot wont be able to overcome it to make a turn. So when designing you need to come up with good ways to do that. Last year our robot had 6 wheels and the center 2 were lower than the other 4. Being able to do something like that in the center of the treads would be pretty neat. We took our center wheels off after the Buckeye Regional because if anyone recalls our robot's performance you would realize that it spent more time on its back than its wheels. So you will have to rember that it will make you tipsy and you may want to design something to keep you on your treads or you will do really bad. We took the middle wheels off and added a pneumatic cylinder on the back that we put out before going up the ramp and we kept on our wheels pretty good. This Year is looking like treads for us so i will get to experience the "horror" of assembling and putting them on. Lol. This year is going to be another fun year of trial and error.