Thread: treads: useful or not?
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Re: treads: useful or not?
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Originally Posted by Manoel View Post
Team 383 used treads from 2001 to 2007.

Team 383 has a lot of experience building robots with treads.

Team 383 cannot use that experience to perfect a tread system.

Team 383 has lost at least two matches in every season it used treads because the robot cannot move when the treads fall off - and they will fall off.

Team 383 will not be using treads anytime soon.


Build your robot as you wish, but I strongly recommend that you build it on wheels, whatever flavor (omni, mecanum, sticky, slippy...) pleases you.
Do you have any more info? who made the trades? to what tolerances were they made? Under what conditions did they fall off?