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This sucks I wont be getting any more rubber chickens to add to my collection this year:(


any time I was scouting on websites anyways :)
Awesome robot maybe we can work together like we did at the Ruckus :)



It looks like some type of swerve to me. I second that I cant wait to see their robot :)

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I too noticed that they weren't attending this year, sad indeed. They always raised the bar of competition at FLR.

:) Thanks! Maybe we will!

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On our drive train - it has been designed over the past year by mentors and students, and machined and built by the students this entire build season. I personally do not know much of it, however the students are excited to show it off and answer all of your questions. It really is a beauty to behold.

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Actually, 174 is from Liverpool, NY. There is one Canadian team and there are two teams from Ohio coming to FLR. The rest are New Yorkers!

My guess is that 174 put together a swerve with a custom gearbox, similar to what 118 did back in 2007. Maybe a 3 CIM, 1 or 2 FP gearbox running a coaxial swerve?
I can see at least one FP motor elsewhere on the robot, so I don't know what is running the drive, but I'm guessing it's handled with a central gearbox.

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Whoops was thinking of 188. But they aren't coming this year.

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We finished our unveil video a little late... I dropped it in the Robot Showcase, but I figure here's a good place, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrM2GlbGOBQ

(Oh, and at about 2:20 you can see the Warlocks bank three in a row in teleop!)

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Looks good 1551. So when you go over the bump do you use the mechs?
Also when will you you use the plaction wheels? For pushing?

I want to investigate your robot more at FLR. Curious.

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We use both the performance (not plaction) and the mechs when going over the barrier.

A. Pushing matches (assuming they come up, which they usually do).
B. Bridge traction -- we *can* balance with the mecanum wheels, but the lower speed, higher traction drive is great for easier balancing -- it also allows us to park in place (sideways or longways) and let our alliance partners balance with us as dead weight if that's easier for them.

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Excuse my stupidness when it comes to drive trains. :)

Also, if they would use you as a dead weight wouldn't you use the mechs?
Then you could turn easily and go sideways.
And it would be easy for them to push you if needed.

But I don't know how well the mechs will actually grip the actual material on the bridges because its very slippery.

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That depends. If they want to be able to push us, we can use the mechs. If they want us to stay still while they move back and forth to balance, we can do that, too.

Reasonably well, but not as well as the performance wheels. You also get a lot of help with the performance wheels -- they're much harder to backdrive than the mecanum wheels are, and have essentially no sideways slip.

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I'm curious what your strategy was behind this design. What do you expect your robot to be doing match in, match out?

Looks good, can't wait to learn more about it

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Score points and balance bridges.

Our design has been modular from the beginning, with a down/up-scale functionality based on what it is that we are actually able to pull off. That is to say, not only our mechanical systems, but our strategy has been modular -- we designed things so that pushing for more than we think we might be able to accomplish actually brought us closer to more realistic goals as well, so that time was well-spent even if the ultimate functionality envisioned didn't pay off.