pic: 1557's 2010 Robot

[JamesCH95]

There's no way a driver could handle a robot with that speed... you'd be going end-to-end on the field in less than 2 seconds. Your radar gun clearly didn't work properly.

[gorrilla]

Originally Posted by JamesCH95

There's no way a driver could handle a robot with that speed... you'd be going end-to-end on the field in less than 2 seconds. Your radar gun clearly didn't work properly.

That's what I was thinking, but it is incredibly fast, over 20fps. It easily covers our 10 foot square of carpet in less than half a second...

[Swampdude]

interesting choice to go tiny, got any videos? looks good! say high to all the ex Mars folks for me. See ya all in a couple weeks!

[JamesCH95]

Originally Posted by gorrilla

That's what I was thinking, but it is incredibly fast, over 20fps. It easily covers our 10 foot square of carpet in less than half a second...

Good lord. What's your motor/gearing/wheel size?!

[gorrilla]

10x 6' plaction and KIT wheels.

2x (12.75:1) ToughBoxes with 4 CIMs.

(roughly) 1.4:1 Chain Reduction

[JamesCH95]

Let's see... CIM free speed is 5300RPM... I'm assuming 6"(in) not 6'(ft) wheels

5300rpm/60 = 88.3[rev/s]...

88.3[rev/s]/12.75/1.4*0.5*3.14[ft/rev] = 7.77ft/s maximum top speed assuming no load, which of course is a bad assumption, so your real top speed will be a little lower. Quick, but not insanely fast.

[gorrilla]

Originally Posted by JamesCH95

Let's see... CIM free speed is 5300RPM... I'm assuming 6"(in) not 6'(ft) wheels

5300rpm/60 = 88.3[rev/s]...

88.3[rev/s]/12.75/1.4*0.5*3.14[ft/rev] = 7.77ft/s maximum top speed assuming no load, which of course is a bad assumption, so your real top speed will be a little lower. Quick, but not insanely fast.

Ya that makes more sense...We did this after we found 31fps untrue, and we got the same result.

But that still dosent explain how it moves faster that that.....Ill put up a video as soon as it is emailed to me

[AlexD744]

Looks like it'll fly through the tunnels and ease over bumps, NICE.

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by gorrilla

10x 6' plaction and KIT wheels.

2x (12.75:1) ToughBoxes with 4 CIMs.

(roughly) 1.4:1 Chain Reduction

With the given information, you should expect to see between 6.5 and 7.0 ft/sec.

In order to reach 31 ft/sec, you would need a final gear ratio between your CIM motors and the output wheels of aproximately 4:1, depending on where in the speed torque curve you would wish to operate at. For comparison, the first stage in the toughbox is 3.57:1.