Turning Trouble!

[Evan Austin]

Another idea to help with turning is to add an air cylinder with a caster on one end of the robot to lift two drive wheels off the floor for turning. This way, you can still have four wheel drive when you want it, and two wheel drive when you want to turn. Our team used this in 03 and it worked very well.

[roboguy #1]

Try switching 2 of the weels with the sam size omni wheels its great orked for us but gearmess is a problem to enough lateral support with that force to hold the plates our gears and wheels are on they strip.

[Wetzel]

As an aside, the_short1 replied to a year old request for help. I was just curious if anyone else noticed that. Good suggestions all around though.


Wetzel

[the_short1]

eek.. i was using that good old search feature.. but i forgot to read the date.. sorry peoples.. it goes into sleep when under 8 volts! well that would explain it. .. i just knew from experience looking at my controller that the robot starts to jerk and not drive properly when the batery arcs around 7 volts..


pain cuz u cant use a multimeter to test the batery.. u need to move the bot and do a donut < puts good stress on robot, and see the OI and look at the voltage how low it drops while doing that..