Advice for driving on ice?

[lundeby]

Team 4388 has an invite to drive our t-shirt shooting robot at a professional hockey game. We will have an audition in a week. Right now our robot has 6” mecanum drive wheels that we use for exhibition at basketball games. We’re thinking that mecanum is probably not a good choice for ice!

We’re considering adding tie-wraps to act as studs to treaded wheels (e.g. am-0940). We found that the head of a tie-wrap will fit into the wheel tread space and still stick out.

There must be some ice driving experts in our FRC community. What’s your advice?


I found these examples on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-2venGlcZk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWnJPdI7dp4

Those videos make me wonder if we’re making too big a deal about driving on ice. Yes we’re in Colorado but it’s been warm here lately. Apologies to those in the north eastern part of the USA that could probably drive test on ice easily.