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Originally posted by GregT
What i ment was, can you lift the goals to get more traction? I hate to sound this way but if your just using your 130 pounds for traction/friction you are not going to be a whole lot more powerful then other teams (unless you get a running start, oh boy ). My team dragged a 200 pound person on carpet, if you think about it the surface dosn't matter, since friction is reduced for your wheels and the body of the person your dragging on tile. Oh well, it dose look like a beast of a robot!
Greg
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No, we can't currently lift the goals off the floor, so we don't have the added benefit of adding additional weight onto our robot.
Instead, we have a far greater contact area with the field than most teams, with a very, very 'toothy' belt. To be honest, I'm quite a bit more familiar with the design than it's actual performance just now. I only got to see it working for a short period of time.
The most impressive thing about dragging an adult down the hall, I think, has less to do with the weight we pulled and more to do with the idea that there was no slippage in our drivetrain whatsoever. That was on linoleum. Carpet, of course, provides significantly more friction, and a better surface to react against.