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Re: robot speed

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Originally Posted by cloud_254 View Post
hey i'm tring to just get a ball park range for a robot's opitmum speed. any suggestion? o and btw wheres the white papers???

thx
This depends on:

1> what the challange is.
2> what strategy you choose.
3> The responsiveness and type of drive train you chose.
4> Skill of your drivers.
etc, etc, etc.

Last year, with us choosing to play defensive and all the scoreing done in the center of the field, so we chose high torque, high traction, and ~6.5 FPS.
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