Implementing Traction Control for an advantage in the 2009 game

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Implementing Traction Control for an advantage in the 2009 game

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07-01-2009, 20:19

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Re: Implementing Traction Control for an advantage in the 2009 game

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Originally Posted by Paul Copioli

To answer the earlier question, what we do on carpet is use an idler wheel on a spring connected to an encoder. this will not really take away from normal force (very, very small spring load) but we are concerned this year that we have to use the actual wheel instead of a small wheel and that the low friction will make that one slip too.

The first Q/A answer is in, and it's a good one. We do not have to use a rover wheel for an idler wheel. http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=10917

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