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From: ames_sca@ccsua.ctstateu.edu
Subject: trinagular drive help
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Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 15:42:36 GMT

Help!  My current mobile robot will be navigating over rough surfaces so
I'll have to scrap my trusty diffrential drive base.  All my experience
lies in this drive type.

I'm was knee deep into designing a track drive and I stumbled over 
triangular drive.  Now I'm at a stand still.  I've researched them
both but nothing makes up for the experience of actually building
them.  

Anybody have any experience with either or both of these drive
types?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance!

                              Scott Ames
                              CCSU Robotics Lab

P.S.  In case your interested, the results of the fire fighting contest
     are as follows:
                 First place   Hot Wheels  (something like 9 sec's!)
                 2nd place     MIT - Micromouse (around 50 sec's)
                 3rd place     CCSU - Snufer   (around 78 sec's)

