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Unread 28-04-2009, 18:30
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Re: Winning Drive Train

I am fairly certain that 111 had traction control. From what I saw, they have a sensor wheel for each of the swerve pods.

This year, I believe that our robot was one of the best pushing robots on the fields from what I saw of our matches. We didn't have traction control, and our robot is light. (115ish) I think that the reason we had more traction, was because this year we went with a normally extremely underpowered drive system. We did the calculations, and found that 1 CIM could provide more than enough power to the wheels to break into dynamic friction (without gear efficiency factored in). So we used 1 CIM, total, this lead us to have just enough power to accelerate at nearly the maximum rate, but also allowed us to never spin our wheels, meaning we had full traction, all the time.
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