Thread: tank or go-cart style steering?
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The Wonders of Tank
Posted by Joe Ross at 1/11/2001 3:26 AM EST


Engineer on team #330, Beach Bot 2001, from Hope Chapel Academy and NASA/JPL and J&F Machine.


In Reply to: tank or go-cart style steering?
Posted by Daniel Garmendia on 1/10/2001 11:26 PM EST:



There are several advantages to the tank style system. The most important is simplicity. Like you said, you already have a program that allows for tank style system, and mechanicaly the tank system is realitively simple also.

To go with a Crab system like chief delphi has so elegently demonstrated in the past is much harder. There are many more programming issues to deal with and mechanically it is more difficult as well.

tank systems can also give you more powered wheels on the ground, which gives you more pushing/pulling power if down properly. You do lose a little manuverabilty, but IMHO building a drive system that can get you from point A to point B reliably is much more important than being manuverable, especially since you don't have any opponents this year.

: My team is trying to decide how we want to steer our robot.. The tank-like design would use two motors and we have a program for that. the go-cart like design would use three motors. Two motors for the forward/backward motion and the other one for changing the direction of the two powered wheels.. Any advantages of this way over the tank way? There is a question of traction too.. didn't hear too well 'bout this.. is the arena carpeted?


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