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Getting more traction
Posted by Adam Krajewski at 1/18/2001 8:12 PM EST


Engineer on team #221, MI Roboworks, from Michigan Tech and Houghton Area Schools and Meritor Automotive.


In Reply to: Keep weight on wheels or you'll be sorry
Posted by Joe Johnson on 1/17/2001 9:30 PM EST:



Last year, due to our robot being front wheel drive and having most of the weight in the back, we had MANY problems with traction. We tried cutting grooves into the wheel chair wheels, knurled aluminum wheels, double cog timing belt attached to the wheel chair wheels, and various types of conveyer belt wraped around aluminum wheels. The best, we found, was the conveyer belt. We were given some hay-bailer belt by a team from Oaklahoma (I can't recall the team number), which seemed to work the best. The knurked aluminum wheels seemed to work well, but in order to keep them from ripping up the carpet, the knurls had to be very small, which didn't work very well. Make sure if you try the conveyer belt to test to see if it wears too quickly or leaves black skid marks all over the carpet.

Adam


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