Does anyone have any tips or resources they have found helpful for tank drive? Our team doesn’t have many practices before state and I want to make sure I can be practicing efficiently and learn how to improve without having the robot and a field
could you send a picture of your robot, and then maybe i could help you.
I’ll take some good ones tomorrow, but our robot is 200 rpm 6 motor with a 1:1 gear ratio (so we can go over the barrier.)
And before everyone tells me it’s too slow, I know. My teammates said I couldn’t rebuild because at our last tournament we were top 30% in speed because most teams are 4 motor. Keep in mind we are middle school too, so the meta is quite a bit different.
I’m also middle school. I understand about that speed. You could do this ratio: (36:84) and get around 257 RPM. Would be about a good speed with good torque. Not easy to be pushed around.
Only 50% of driving is technical skill controlling the robot. The other 50% is making the right decisions on the field.
Watch match videos from high-level tournaments. Given that a 200RPM drive was in the top 30% of teams for speed, you probably won’t be facing super strong competition, so I’d especially look for matches in which one very good team was in a match with three weaker teams. Try to figure out how to play against primitive strategies such as just shooting all of the match loads.
With the limited robot practice, you’ll want to focus on specific tasks you’ll be doing throughout the game. Don’t aimlessly drive around the field.
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It would be difficult for us to implement 6 motor drive, we were thinking about this drivetrain before.
That gear ratio is very good. It allows a lot of torque, which is very good. 257 rpm is also decently fast, so don’t worry about the robot being too slow. Our drive train has a similar gear ratio, and is working perfectly fine. We are having some drifting problems now and then, but it’s getting better.
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I’d do 360 3.25 for a beginner driver honestly
Holy crap I wouldn’t want to get in a pushing match with you. You shouldn’t need much drive practice with 200 RPM
You always need practice. You can have a meta bot with a bad driver lose to a modified hero bot with a good driver
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We are a high school team, and our old bot was 257 rpm. After around 2 tournaments we realized that this was WAY too slow, and we are upgrading to 480 rpm in 4in Omnis. This is also not advised to do but if you are looking to be competitive at higher level tournaments you should run at least 300 rpm (depending on what size wheels you are using).
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Well i mean getting the hang of the speed.
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