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I noticed this year that the teams who did well didn't have a very fancy design or anything they had a robot that drove well and had good speed and torque. I thought about it and decided that the best way to maximize traction and driveabiliy is to have all four wheels spinning at the same rate. This means four seperate gearboxes and a shaft encoder on each wheel. Then a program that keeps thmspinning the same speed. I was wondering if anyone else has had any experience with a system like this and if it woked or didn't work ect.
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Re: independant 4 wheel drive

This year we used a simple system with the drill motors using the FIRST supplied gearbox, and made I made a grearbox for the CIM motors that had a relatively simular output speed. All we had to do in the end was chain the two ouput shafts together, and it made a simple and reliable system that satisfied basically all we needed/wanted it to do.

We place the CIM motors on the back wheels, and the Drill motors on the front wheels, thus making out 4 wheel drive.

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I noticed this year that the teams who did well didn't have a very fancy design or anything they had a robot that drove well and had good speed and torque. I thought about it and decided that the best way to maximize traction and driveabiliy is to have all four wheels spinning at the same rate. This means four seperate gearboxes and a shaft encoder on each wheel. Then a program that keeps thmspinning the same speed. I was wondering if anyone else has had any experience with a system like this and if it woked or didn't work ect.
how about just 4 wheel drive? have one or two motors for each side, run a chain of that spoket to the front whhels and on another sproket to another whell in the back.. ill look for photos... o i rememebr www.gosparx.org *2004 photos* look and you can see what i am tlaking about.
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I noticed this year that the teams who did well didn't have a very fancy design or anything they had a robot that drove well and had good speed and torque. I thought about it and decided that the best way to maximize traction and driveabiliy is to have all four wheels spinning at the same rate. This means four seperate gearboxes and a shaft encoder on each wheel. Then a program that keeps thmspinning the same speed. I was wondering if anyone else has had any experience with a system like this and if it woked or didn't work ect.
Wheels driven by chain or gears are spinning at the same rate.
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Re: independant 4 wheel drive

found one laready.. go to picture galleries,2004,regionals,buckeye.. you can find many of my bot and see the chians good..

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Re: independant 4 wheel drive

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I noticed this year that the teams who did well didn't have a very fancy design or anything they had a robot that drove well and had good speed and torque. I thought about it and decided that the best way to maximize traction and driveabiliy is to have all four wheels spinning at the same rate. This means four seperate gearboxes and a shaft encoder on each wheel. Then a program that keeps thmspinning the same speed. I was wondering if anyone else has had any experience with a system like this and if it woked or didn't work ect.

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Re: independant 4 wheel drive

For simplicity, like its been said, you can just link each side with chain and sprockets or gears, etc

For driveability, i would use a gyro to give you steering feedback and have it adjust ur drives(not that i have any experience with them, but that seems to be the general trend around here)

For traction, maybe you could use a non powered wheel with an encoder on each driving side. That way, if a wheel slips, you can slow it down to the speed of the non powered wheel, (or just above it, depending) until the two speeds match, then you know that you are getting grip, and are good to go. Let me know what you think

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Re: independant 4 wheel drive

My team had a 4- wheel drive system that involved linking the front tires with the rear ones with chains. I did notice, though that when the robot went to turn, it "hopped" like a 4-wheel drive truck on a dry day. I myself was going to post a qeustion that asked if anyone had a somution without loosing to much traction?

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My team had a 4- wheel drive system that involved linking the front tires with the rear ones with chains. I did notice, though that when the robot went to turn, it "hopped" like a 4-wheel drive truck on a dry day. I myself was going to post a qeustion that asked if anyone had a somution without loosing to much traction?
This is not because of the chains linking. It is because the wheelbase is longer than the track width is wide and there is too much traction.
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Re: independant 4 wheel drive

We've developed an excellent solution for this. I'm fairly sure it's not an original idea, however I don't know who to credit it too.

Our drive train consists of 4 drive modules. Two are powered by the Chips, and two are powered by the drills. The motors are mounted horizontally, making their polarity/wheel direction the same. Worm gears are used to transfer the power horizontally to vertically (to the wheel). With a little programming and gearing the motors spin at about the same RPM.

Even with using the sticky pneumatic tires we've never blown a fuse. We also rarely lost a pushing match. Our only problem is that we had turning problems, IE: hopping. I think we're going to solve that via some omni-wheels. With some tweaks in the off-season, we are going to make this our standard drive train.
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Re: independant 4 wheel drive

We've tried using 1 motor on each side to get 4 wheel drive, and we've never had a successful drive train. What we used was the drill motor in the middle, and had a long chain running from the front sprocket to the back sprocket and tensioners on both sides of the drill motor.

The problem with that is: since your not running the chain from front to rear, you don't have enough wrap around your sprocket. An ideal drive train probably has around 140-150 degrees of wrap. Because our drive train did not have enough wrap, the sprocket and chain would engage well and the sprocket would always slip when we drive, and it would make that weird buckling noise because of the slippage.

We have since tried 2 wheel drive and it works better than before... next year we'll go back two 4 wheel drive but maybe this time with a double sprocket or 4 motors?
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We have since tried 2 wheel drive and it works better than before... next year we'll go back two 4 wheel drive but maybe this time with a double sprocket or 4 motors?
As far as I can tell, the best solutions to your problem are to either use a double sprocket on the output shaft of your gearbox, as you said, or to snake the chain around the output shaft using idle sprockets. In 2001, team 254 did this. The picture should be nicely indicative of what I mean.
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Re: independant 4 wheel drive

You could use idle sprockets to guide the chain but you could also use a rounded piece of HDPE or other low friction material bolted to the frame to save weight and machining/shipping time. I don't know if this has been done in FIRST but I remember it on some battlebots... if you need a picture I could find one.

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this isn't exactly what I was talking about but you see how the yellow plastic bit is being used.
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Re: independant 4 wheel drive

The past few years, we have used a small adjustable sprocket both as an idler to assure 180 degrees of wrap on all driven or driving sprocket, and as a chain tensioner. It works quite well.

You can see a picture of our 2k3 design here (this picture was taken during repairs, so there is slack in the chain). The bolt on the right hand side of the trapeziodal piece is what moves the idler up and down, and the sprocket at the bottom is connected to the motor. The is a stationary idler on the other side near the wheel that isn't quite visible.

Also, by placing the idlers above the driven sprocket on one side and below the driven sprocket on the other side, we could have both our motors running the same direction (which is much more efficient than the worm gear solution posted above, since worm gear efficiency is around 70% at best, while sprocket efficiency is around 97%).
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Re: independant 4 wheel drive

The problem with the 2 wheels move together idea is that to have good tunability your front wheels have to have less traction than the back wheels and slide when u turn. This means that your traction limit is lessened in the 2 wheels move together idea. WHat I really menat was to have each wheel move independantly from eachother so each wheel is at it's traction limit. Anyone know what I'm talkin about.

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