paper: Cyber Blue Drive System Test Report

[DampRobot]

Thanks to everyone from 234 for doing this awesome research and paper! I really enjoyed reading it.

I'm glad that this confirms my recent belief that "more acceleration is better in most cases" really isn't the way things work. It appears, given the data, that a slower geared robot will not accelerate noticeably faster, but will have a slower top speed. Within parameters considered reasonable for FRC, you really do go faster when you gear faster.

Of course, there may be arguments about drivability or the ease of coding autonomous, but I'm glad to have some evidence about whether or not gearing slower can get you to a distance faster in real world conditions.