Michael-
Don't underestimate our bot on a hard floor. Remember, we pushed Mr. Drexel down a tiled floor (not sure if you were there) on the treads. There's plenty of friction in our robot and treads to push stuff on a flat, tile floor. Sure, the carpet really helps with our traction (or whatever keeps us from slipping), but we can still push more than our own weight on a tile floor. Not that moving on a flat floor even matters.
238junior-
how does your track system work, and do you have a goal grabber? cause your robot sounds strangly very much like ours. although, if you really can do 15 fps, you have an ever so slight speed advantage. if your going to nationals, i'd like to see your robot, sounds like another interesting design, cause the way we did our treads, well, ask Michael about that design.
