Highest traction wheels

[Jeffy]

Originally Posted by MICHAELABICK

This is also like drag racing, where they heat up the wheels so that they "stick" to the ground and wider wheels have more traction.

This is also in effect on robots. The wheel will heat up during use and can gain traction because of this.


As stated above, softer wheels will do you better most of the time. However, when I built bots that drove on painted wood surfaces or stainless steel surfaces, a very soft foam wheel often had less traction than a harder rubber wheel.

One more thing,
When running a robot on a hard surface, the surface quality effects traction much more than on carpet. Sticky wheels will suck up dust and their CoF will quickly change.

If this were my project, I would first try a few different types of urethane wheels and test to see if I liked the results. I would also try a few different tread patterns.

[mman1506]

RC carpet racers use foam wheels on carpet. Porous foam tends to grip really well on carpet but it would be impratical for frc use because of how quickly it wears