Carpet at Competition

[Hebrew]

Hi,

I am part of a rookie team. We didn't get as far as I wold have liked this year but we managed to get a working robot, it can't shoot very well so we will just be doing defense. We recently took our robot to our schools library to test it out on carpet but it could not turn at all. The robot locks up and will not move for a small amount of time. The carpet that we used it on is a short, harder style carpet. We tried putting masking tape on the wheels. The masking tape ripped off very fast. We put duct tape on the wheels and it just spun out which would not work playing defense. We put some sand paper on the wheels and it could not turn.

Our robot is just right in the dimension limits and is operating with the wheel from the KOP. It is a tank drive with a motor on each side toward the back of the robot.

What I the carpet like at the competition?

Is there anything we can do to fix the wheel problem fairly fast? We are going to a scrimmage tomorrow.



Thanks.