We built a 6-CIM Kiwi Drive. Criticisms please!

[JamesCH95]

Gearing a single drive for 15ft/s seems... optimistic IMO. Can you change out gears to change your drive speed? If so, experiment! Try recording times for a few bench-mark maneuvers, like sprinting half-field, going through a slalom course, etc.

Originally Posted by colin340

Please find me one case of 2 wheel ackerman steering being competitive (single single handily wining a quals match) .


i think you will find there is way more to be learn and from a WCD (8wd is king) 6 cim SS geared to 10-13 FPS for acceleration (LISTEN TO 610)

but yeah needs to be way faster

See 2008 for successful Ackerman robots. Or #40 from 2011, which very successfully executed a two-axle Ackerman steering robot.

610's 2013 drive was 6WD. 8WD is not necessarily 'king' in the tank-drive world.

Samwaldo is right, there's no inherently 'best' or 'worst' drive train design. Like any other FRC mechanism the success of a drive-train hinges entirely on it's execution and proper integration with the overall robot design and game strategy. Devil in the details and whatnot...