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Re: Implementing Traction Control for an advantage in the 2009 game

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Originally Posted by Qbranch View Post
The coefficients of friction (preliminarily) for static is 0.06 and dynamic is 0.05. If you calculate out how long it would take for a 120lb robot to accelerate to 10ft/sec, you'll find the difference in time to be about 0.1sec. Not much difference.
Not quite:
Max acceleration = CoF * g (ft/s^2)
dynamic: .05 * 32.174 = 1.6087
static: .06 * 32.174 = 1.93044
thus the 0-10ft/s times are:
dynamic: 10/1.6087 = 6.2162
static: 10/1.9304 = 5.1802
difference: 1.0359

That's just a bit over a second, a fairly significant difference. Not to mention the fact that preventing slip will improve handling.