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Jsteel
01-02-2016, 08:14
How are teams planning on ensuring that their robots don't roll backwards off the Batter after the end of the match when power is killed? There is a 3/4 inch cleat there, but not sure that is going to stop this year's robots.

This assumes, of course, that you are not hanging

scrblnrd3
01-02-2016, 08:23
Setting your motor controllers to brake mode at the end ought to do it

FrankJ
01-02-2016, 08:28
Setting your motor controllers to brake mode at the end ought to do it

That might help a little, but it will not hold the robot still. Brake mode depends on the motor generating a back EMF which they don't do at zero speed.