Limitting motor torque

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by Hawiian Cadder

if you are not using CAN then the torque can be calculated with the voltage you are putting in and speed, this requires an encoder on the motor though. although instead of worrying about how to make do with less traction, i would focus on getting more traction. this years robot was geared for 14 feet per second, and before we switched to roughtop tread it was able to spin the wheels at stall, after the switch, we had no problems.

Why does it make a difference what kind of control you are using?

Increasing traction by increasing friction will also increase power draw which is not a good thing (for obvious reasons).

http://mizugaki.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/st...F/EV_Trans.pdf This paper originally posted to CD by Tom Schindler may be interesting to some of you. It explains how to implement traction control on an electric vehicle.