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Excessive use of pneumatics is a NO NO!, if you are going to employ pneumatics into a drive train, be sure to keep the range of movement to a minimun (for instance short strokes). Example... a gearbox, though a very risky undertaking in itself for a rookie, or even some veteren teams... use short stroke cylenders to and little room for error.
Also, don't forget wear and tear, especially treds. Though a tred system may be perfect on AUTOCAD, after a few uses, stretching of the material could jepardise the whole design!
Aside from all that, the key to a long lasting prescision drive train might not be in the calculations and the tolerances.. But a rugged chassis. If u have a sturdy chassis, it greatly improves the performance of the robot... and affects of age.
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