Thread: Effective Drive Base
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Unread 12-01-2010, 21:52
Shawyan Shawyan is offline
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Re: Effective Drive Base
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Originally Posted by hipsterjr View Post
We designed these articulating drive pods back in 2005 and have been waiting for a game like this to use them.
Wow. Simply amazing drive train.

I believe the best overall drive train is either full holonomic or Swerve drive. This would allow being able to rotate the robot to face the goal, as well as drive in the desired direction. Swerve drive allow the team to keep more motors free for other activities such as a kicker, but still retain the "any direction i want, i go, no worries".

Also, I do not see the reasoning behind why having smaller wheels will make it more difficult to go over the bump, as long as the wheels are extended further down. Though 4 inches may be pushing it.