Hints.

  • Heavier Robots are harder for an opponent robot to pull over the line.

  • If your robot use gears to make its wheels turn more slowly, this can also make your robot more difficult to pull over the line; to do this you would put a small gear on the motor axle, and a larger gear of the wheel axle.

  • Sometimes using more than one tyre on an axle can make your robot more difficult to pull over the line; but this will depend on whether your competition is being held on a table-top or carpet.

  • Sometimes more motors can be an advantage.

  • Have you talked to your teacher/mentor about whether your robot needs wheels at all?

    Robot Tugs-of War on the Web?

    You might also get some ideas from seeing robot Tugs of War on YouTube:-

    http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=FCNqOeCXPeU 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uztX71zPZmw 

Tug of War Hints - Tutorial 40 - NXT-G - LEGO MindStorms NXT -  © Dr. Graeme Faulkner - www.DrGraeme.net