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Originally Posted by JesseK
It's a balancing act of more acceleration time vs. more time at max speed. In some cases going to a larger wheel, with no other changes, will indeed cause a higher time.
It appears to be simulating each side as if the 1 side powered the entire robot going forward, and only 1 CIM is ever used on the 3 tabs. It this intentional? Other than that it looks pretty good.
Though I would caution -- if you replay your matches this year, even on an 'open field' like this year, how far did your robot ever sprint in a straight line? Might be best to optimize it for a distance based upon your strategy (20-40ft for us)
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Ah! good point. I do have all other power calculations assumed to be using 1/4 of the robot weigh on one wheel (4 wheels evenly bearing the weight). My mistake is that I assumed the same one wheel for acceleration in that it would be accelerating the entire mass of the robot by itself when it would only be accelerating 1/4th the mass as well, right?
Only time will tell for sure, but it seems that the current software providers are hatching up a pretty good solution to the problem. - dlavery [more] 
09-05-2011, 12:10
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