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Re: Effectiveness of Casters
liek alavinus posted, our team is team is using skids...the only thing that 4-wheel drive is good for is added traction...for manuevering stuff liek the steps, it'd be great...6 could work but I'm not entriely sure that many are needed. I'm not entirely sure that you would WANT to get onto the stairs though because if I read your team number correctly, you're a a rookie team...having been on a rookie team myself and knowing a number of people who were rookies at one time...I would focus on a driving box...maybe something that herds balls...and use 1 caster not 2 if your team decides to use casters, though I like many others do not recomend it.

But like I was saying, our team is using skids...so the front of our robot will just slide along the surface of the carpet. you guys might want to look into that...