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Re: Reasonable Speed

At IRI concerning drive trains to be used in a FIRST match Bill Beaty he said that a good speed that is just below where your driver may have problems controlling the robot would be around 10-12 fps. I agree with him on this because once you have your robot going above this speed your driver may have problems controlling the bot especially if your drive system is not fine tuned. It also could cause problems when your bot has a high COG and you would like to turn pretty quickly. Well as physics dictate, that maybe hard to do without having your robot fall over on its side. Just some things to think about.
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