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Re: Robowranglers 2014: Vader

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Originally Posted by Abhishek R View Post
Could you expand a bit more on why the hard-connected version didn't work and why the center wheel must be articulated? It seems to me if you just had it dropped enough the hard-connection would work.
Abishek,

It's impossible to have all the wheels touch the floor at the same time, because the floor isn't perfectly flat. As a result, there are times where a non-articulated center wheel will be lifting one side of the drive train off the floor, so that you end up going in circles when you try to drive forward.

I can't see the mechanism well, but I wonder if it doesn't use torsion springs to return it to level so it isn't touching the floor when it isn't running.

Electronica1: I'd venture a guess that your drifting hypothesis is correct. They've seemed to enjoy drifting - I remember them doing it quite a bit in 2011.
 


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