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Unread 28-03-2007, 01:18
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Re: Best Form Of Six Wheel Drive?

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Originally Posted by squirrel View Post
It depends on what you want the robot to do. In typical game competitions, the robots play offense and defense, and a robot that resists being turned (and also has to work a bit to be able to turn itself) seems to do pretty well at being able to score while being "pestered". Omnis make your robot easier to be turned around by other robots. There's always a trade-off!
Well, if somebody's going to be running Omniwheels, though, then having them at the corners as opposed to the pivot point would make more sense to me, but yes, there is a trade-off, sadly.


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Originally Posted by kramarczyk View Post
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Thanks for that, cleared some of it up. I'll probably get around to reading that again when it's not 10:20PM and I have to pack for a Regional.
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