Drive Trains

[BornaE]

@squirrel

Good point Jason, this year we were playing with Ackermann drive and so we connected an R/C car control to it (the type with a small 2" diameter steering wheel and trigger throttle, all in a pistol grip) and it worked very well. Then we had an “aha!” moment and asked the programmers to make the new controller work with last year’s 6wd drivetrain…and the result is an intuitive way to drive a skid steer robot. And a Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control award!

That is what we did to test out our driving system with our 2007 bot to simulate ackermann drive that is on our 08 bot for testing hybrid. the code was also used on our back wheels as the electronic differential.