Strategy

[MFennig8]

I have to say, treads, as much as our team has never tried them, seem to be a really good aspect. One of the members on my team brought up having three lines of tread, having four separate parts like they are tires and even a snowmobile idea with treads in back with wheels on front.

But looking at it, and how our team has come across being the strong defensive team we are, 6 wheel drive is our way of thinking. Having all 6 wheels powered off of two center wheel drive motors. We had a 2 wheel drive on aim high and it went smoothly up the 30 degree ramp of 2FT. We figure, why not do that and add a two speed transmission to the mix to get that extra help.

[LostProphet]

You could possibly put a dome on top of the robot so you would not get penalized for holding the ball.

[Austinmead]

or you put memory foam on top of the robot and angle it to the front of the robot so the soccer ball falls infront of you....

[drtysteve384]

just sit your defending zone kick balls across the field and when you run out go into the middle and just kick balls like their is no tommorow, to prevent your opponet from having balls and scoring, and have a robot play defense and if there is a robot with a weak kicker jut put them in offense zone and kick balls into the goals, as it is not the much of a distance to kick...

[KrakatoaCoo]

Originally Posted by Austinmead

what do you guys think of this?
robot is offensive, a kicking mechanism....with treads to allow it to go over the bumps?
any other things i should add to the idea???

treads may not be that great on handling and speed......unless your team is willing to give that up for going over bumps........

my team is basing our new drive train on our 2006 robot, The Commander, which went over bumps like it was flat!

[CallieJ]

Our team did some prototyping and found that if the robot was under 18" high it seemed to be fine on the bumps, without tipping. This is also useful because it happens to be the height of the tunnel, so it leaves that option open. The chassis we were using had 6 wheels, a little smaller than the required ones for Lunacy.