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16-03-2012, 11:15

MrForbes

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Re: Wheelbases

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Originally Posted by thefro526

When looking at wide based robots, you can usually get away with having as long of a wheelbase as physically possible with no ill-effects.

We discovered this year that we could get too much traction on a wide base robot, so it could not turn while not moving forward/backward. We ended up changing wheels for a bit less traction, but we could also have changed the drive ratio to fix the problem.

There are lots of variables here! so there isn't one answer.

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