Wondering

[geo]

wondering what was the average speed of the robots last year?
we are going for speed this year and we want to compare it to last years robots to see if we need to improve our robot.

Thanks

[Clark Gilbert]

I can't tell u an exact average or probably even guess.....but one thing you really need to do it tune your speed and power to the task your robot will be performing....One thing i can guess is that this year do to the increase in motors there will be some pretty fast robots...

[David Kelly]

Originally posted by Clark Gilbert
I can't tell u an exact average or probably even guess.....but one thing you really need to do it tune your speed and power to the task your robot will be performing....One thing i can guess is that this year do to the increase in motors there will be some pretty fast robots...

oh really? how fast clark? you wanna tell us anything?

[Wetzel]

We arn't going to be too fast this year...gonna have mad pulling power tho...
2 fps < our speed this year < 12fps

[Ken Leung]

Here is how it was for the past years... With two drill motors:

1~2 ft/s second is really really slow, but TONS of pushing force.

3~5 ft/s is a general speed for a strong pushing robot.

6~9 ft/s is usually the middle where robots aren't the fastest and aren't the strongest in pushing.

10~12 ft/s is for high speed robots that speed across the field for balls...

13~18 is REALLY REALLY fast robot, so fast that it's hard to control... might risk some chance burning motors

>18 is insanely fast... two drill usually can't handle this fast without tripping circuit breakers, or burning out motors, with 130lbs of weight.

These are just estimates anyway. Good for rookie teams and beginner teams. Veteran teams with 4 motor drive train or more, you know how fast your robot should go.