How many robot can hang on at the same time?
 

Posted by Ken.

Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M. Gunn Senior High School.

Posted on 2/24/2000 9:47 PM MST



Seems to me that a lot of robot will be grabbing onto the hanging bar, but not able to keep itself from swinging. This means a strong robot can push a hanging robot away and grab the hanging bar.

Plus the bar is pretty wide...

How many robot do you think will be hanging on the bar?
Will there be more hanging during 'normal' games or during final's games (where really good robot compete)?

swinging? give us your best shot
 

Posted by Daniel.

Coach on team #483, BORG, from Berkeley High School and NASA Ames & UC Berkeley.

Posted on 2/24/2000 11:39 PM MST


In Reply to: How many robot can hang on at the same time? posted by Ken on 2/24/2000 9:47 PM MST:



I'd like to propose a challenge to all you teams out there that think you'll be able to send hanging robots on a ride. Anyone out there who manages to tilt the BORG robot more than 20 degrees after it's clamped onto that bar gets a case of soda from yours truly (seems to be the going rate for challenges nowadays). I think you'll soon remember some 'simple machine' experiments you may have seen in your general physics class. I'd love to see you closeline yourselves ;-)

Good luck!!

not just BORG
 

Posted by Daniel.

Coach on team #483, BORG, from Berkeley High School and NASA Ames & UC Berkeley.

Posted on 2/25/2000 12:23 AM MST


In Reply to: swinging? give us your best shot posted by Daniel on 2/24/2000 11:39 PM MST:



By the way, I don't think this only applies to BORG. We really did nothing special to our clamp. Remember that hanging robots have about twice the lever a ground-bound robot has.

Re: swinging? give us your best shot
 

Posted by Steve Prairie.

Student on team #173, RAGE, from Rockville High School /East Hartford High School and UTRC.

Posted on 2/25/2000 8:26 AM MST


In Reply to: swinging? give us your best shot posted by Daniel on 2/24/2000 11:39 PM MST:



We found out alot from the UTC scrimage. One of the things was that it will be very hard to push us off the bar. OTIS/Farmington High pushed our 130lbs robot to almost 40 degree angle and wasn't even close to pushing us off. In fact, we pushed them all the way off the ramp from the bar! It will be intresting to see other robots try to push us off.