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15-04-2008, 23:45

ChuckDickerson ChuckDickerson is offline

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Re: pic: "Gear Head" - trophy for FIRST Finale Asphalt Challenge

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

I was factoring that into acceleration, as you can't accelerate very well without traction in a wheeled vehicle.

Perhaps I should have worded that better, I didn't mean the radial acceleration of the wheels, I meant the linear acceleration of the robot/car as a whole.

Sorry Sean, maybe I should have worded my post better as well. I meant to imply that robots that do well on carpet might not do quite as well on asphalt/concrete.

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