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How can you make turning smoother?

does anyone know how to make turning smoother? our robot movement is too jerky...
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Re: How can you make turning smoother?

What kind of drive train are you running?
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Re: How can you make turning smoother?

Run a 6 or 8 wheel tank drive with the center wheel(s) dropped 1/8".
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Re: How can you make turning smoother?

Run mechanum wheels?

Any kind of tank drive with grippy wheels or tracks are going to have issues turning smoothly. It is because you have to slide the wheels side way. There are compensations: short wheel base, six wheel drive with a dropped center wheel, etc. Having enough torque is also critical. Either by two cims per side or low enough gearing.
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does anyone know how to make turning smoother? our robot movement is too jerky...
Please post a picture of your drivetrain so we can help you better.
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Re: How can you make turning smoother?

Chris Hibner's white paper should be required reading for anyone worried about smooth turning.
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Re: How can you make turning smoother?

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does anyone know how to make turning smoother? our robot movement is too jerky...
Square the inputs from your joystick into your robot drive. This will make the joystick less sensitive.
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Re: How can you make turning smoother?

Hey... one of the new Calgary teams! Welcome aboard, and welcome to Chief Delphi. I'm hoping to get out to Calgary this year, and look forward to seeing your machine.

We had this problem with our first robot, a four wheel drive machine... it worked great on our cement and linoleum floors at school, but when we finally got to Toronto and put it on carpet... we couldn't turn worth a darn.

The problem is inherent to skid steering... the front and rear of the robot needs to skid sideways, in order for the robot to turn. Since we design the robots to have high traction wheels (which were great for pushing) they were awful for turning. We had to reduce the coefficient of friction of one set of wheels so that they could slide sideways.

With a six or eight wheel drive (which we eventually switched to) the trick is to lower the centre wheels... this reduces the "normal force" (hey, physics in action) on the front and rear wheels, making it easier for them to skid sideways.

If you are locked into a four wheel drive design, you might want to consider some omni wheels... http://www.andymark.com/Omni-s/51.htm they also work great with six and eight wheel drive machines.

Good luck! Hope you get the machine running well soon.

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Re: How can you make turning smoother?

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Hey... one of the new Calgary teams! Welcome aboard, and welcome to Chief Delphi. I'm hoping to get out to Calgary this year, and look forward to seeing your machine.

We had this problem with our first robot, a four wheel drive machine... it worked great on our cement and linoleum floors at school, but when we finally got to Toronto and put it on carpet... we couldn't turn worth a darn.

The problem is inherent to skid steering... the front and rear of the robot needs to skid sideways, in order for the robot to turn. Since we design the robots to have high traction wheels (which were great for pushing) they were awful for turning. We had to reduce the coefficient of friction of one set of wheels so that they could slide sideways.

With a six or eight wheel drive (which we eventually switched to) the trick is to lower the centre wheels... this reduces the "normal force" (hey, physics in action) on the front and rear wheels, making it easier for them to skid sideways.

If you are locked into a four wheel drive design, you might want to consider some omni wheels... http://www.andymark.com/Omni-s/51.htm they also work great with six and eight wheel drive machines.
Good luck! Hope you get the machine running well soon.

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It doesnt cause the normal force to decrease. What happens is that the centripetal force when pivoting on the dropped wheels causes the outer wheels to lift and cause them to be in a state of balance with each other. While pivoting the outer wheels are applying no force to the ground or in other words not touching.
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Re: How can you make turning smoother?

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With a six or eight wheel drive (which we eventually switched to) the trick is to lower the centre wheels... this reduces the "normal force" (hey, physics in action) on the front and rear wheels, making it easier for them to skid sideways.
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does anyone know how to make turning smoother? our robot movement is too jerky...
To interpret this a different way, if you're talking about the robot turning really suddenly and being hard to control, make sure it weighs the full amount. Light weight robots are often squirrely. Also running on carpet vesus tile makes a huge difference.

If the robot IS having the opposite problem ( it's difficult to turn) and you are running a 6/8 wheel drive you can do a couple of things.

1. Change the outer wheels on one/both sides to a lower coefficient wheel. In general FRC terms Omni wheels have the least CoF (aside from Lunacy wheels [ew]) and pneumatic wheels have the most. The old gray rubber wheels were a happy medium between the two. Wedgetop is also a pretty good inbetween after it's been run on for a while.

2. Increase the drop in your chassis. If it is impossible to actually lower the middle wheels with your current design. turning down your outer wheels could work (although less desirable because it changes the surface speed of those wheels relative to the middle.)

3. CoG and tortional stiffness. It's probably too late to change these but your frame stiffness and keeping the robot's Center of Gravity close to the ground are large factors in a high performing chassis.

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Re: How can you make turning smoother?

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Hey... one of the new Calgary teams! Welcome aboard, and welcome to Chief Delphi. I'm hoping to get out to Calgary this year, and look forward to seeing your machine.

We had this problem with our first robot, a four wheel drive machine... it worked great on our cement and linoleum floors at school, but when we finally got to Toronto and put it on carpet... we couldn't turn worth a darn.

The problem is inherent to skid steering... the front and rear of the robot needs to skid sideways, in order for the robot to turn. Since we design the robots to have high traction wheels (which were great for pushing) they were awful for turning. We had to reduce the coefficient of friction of one set of wheels so that they could slide sideways.

With a six or eight wheel drive (which we eventually switched to) the trick is to lower the centre wheels... this reduces the "normal force" (hey, physics in action) on the front and rear wheels, making it easier for them to skid sideways.

If you are locked into a four wheel drive design, you might want to consider some omni wheels... http://www.andymark.com/Omni-s/51.htm they also work great with six and eight wheel drive machines.

Good luck! Hope you get the machine running well soon.

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Instead of the omni wheels from andymark I suggest you build your own, we learned the omni wheels they sell are kinda week if you get another robot pushing on you and your trying to maneuver out or away, My team has built our own omni and mecanum wheels for a few years now and they work just as good if not better and are a lot better on the teams wallet. Good luck, and hope to see you at worlds

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Instead of the omni wheels from andymark I suggest you build your own...
The omni wheels from AndyMark work brilliantly and are used by hundreds of FRC teams... but I'm glad there are teams out there who choose to build their own, even if only for the fun of doing so.

But there is a pretty good chance your turning problems can be solved with a quick visit to Andy's website if you don't feel like machining a new part, from scratch, with a week left to go. Just order the correct diameter omni wheel that matches your current hub and pay for the expedited delivery and chances are you'll be turning smoothly by Wednesday.

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Re: How can you make turning smoother?

robiticxs,
What you describe is classic for four wheel drive systems as described above. What you don't see is the current drawn in this configuration. Current skyrockets as the drive motors consume near stall currents turning. Often the jerking occurs when the wheels finally break free of the carpet for a moment and then grab again. Omni wheels do correct this when added to the front or the back, not both, please. There are other solutions. Teams have put down a turning wheel that is at right angles to the drive wheels. When they want to turn, the additional wheel descends using pneumatics or some other power and lifts two of the wheels off the ground. A simple pneumatic cylinder with a caster wheel or nylon tip works almost as well.
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Re: How can you make turning smoother?

Al just a question when you use a drop wheel to aid in turning.

Do your bumpers have to stay within the bumper zone?

As I read and try to understand the rules, I would say Yes you do, but could be wrong.
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