Not enough current; two motors; arduino uno

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Dear People,

I am working on a project which is to make an autonomous robot. I have a regular directly controlled tractor type robot with two motors. The control is powered by four AA batteries. When I run the robot directly connected to the control, it runs at full power. When I connect it to the arduino Uno and run my programs, the motors do not reach the same level of power (with the same 6v of battery power that powers the control). The program is not the issue. I am almost positive the that the issue is the amount of current I am pulling. Is there anything I can do to get more current to power the motors? (it is a school project, and part of the guidelines is that I do not use any other electrical components than are already supplied to me).

Thanks

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We need a circuit of how you are driving the motors.

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Rather than make me guess that you're using an L298 or L293D based motor
driver, why not actually tell us the exactly hardware and software you are using
so we can answer appropriately?

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We have L298 based drivers and 2 DC motors being powered by them. We are using the arduino programing language.

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Post a schematic and your code, else we're all guessing.....