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Personally, I like the idea of accessable electronics boards. This year, we had a lot of maintainance problems when we put the electronics board on the bellypan and below all the mechanisms.
Though, I don't see how practical it would be to have the board open downward, since maintainance would involve flipping robot to its sides. Have you considered making the board fold upwards? |
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Just make sure that doesn't open mid-match!
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Also, it already uses quick release pins to open the doors. (3 on the side where the cRIO, sidecar, and PDB are, and 1 for each door where the jags and spikes are) Those would probably be tied in with cables. (it would be catastrophic if they opened in a match! Yikes!) |
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I think it's a fabulous idea. We are doing a new chassis this year with a similar arrangement. Every other year it seems we end up with a superstructure that blocks access to the electronics; may as well plan for it. If the electronics turns out to be accessible from above, all the better. We plan on using rivet nuts with locktite to hold it in place.
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I'll see if our guys can post a CAD. We have two center cross members about where yours are, with the piano hinges attached there by rivets. Our electronics hinges down from the center cross members, accessible from the bottom, with the rivet nuts on the extreme ends of the chassis to hold the hinges closed. We will have a shear plate welded between the two center cross members, and we'll mount our compressor on that. We are also putting small gussets at the corners of the chassis for shear (I think that's more of a concern than torsional rigidity with regards to a belly pan). Also the battery will go in a "cage" and that cage will be mounted in a location tbd depending on access and the mechanisms above the electronics. Our chassis is welded tubular 1x2 for the most part. It's our first time with a west-coast style drive...
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It looks like you have a sheet metal frame. We do not have sheet metal sponsors, so we've never ventured into that scary place. My first concern for you would be parallelogramming (shear) for the chassis when you get a violent hit on the corner. The welded tubular frame does pretty well against those corner hits, but it still definitely needs a shear plate. Other teams would speak with more authority on how to achieve the same thing with sheet metal, but I would start with lots of rivets on your shear plate or gussets. I see you have basically created box cross sections for the sides and end members. That's great; you just need to figure out how to connect them and resist shear.
As for the advantages: the biggest advantage of tubular is simplicity. From my point of view, the easiest chassis is an off-the-shelf chassis, the next easiest is one the sorta off the shelf (like ours: we're using versablocks), the next is a custom one using plates or tubes (what we usually do), and the most difficult is sheet metal. Just so you know, we routinely find 1/8" wall 1" square tubing bending dramatically because of hits to our front and rear bumpers . |
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I do have a piece in the center on the bottom of the chassis to prevent shear, and the shooter bolted on top should help some. You don't think that would be enough? Also, the reason I did sheet metal was because I wanted to be able to do this with minimal hand fabrication at our build site. Another goal was for it to be easy to build, and as soon as we get the parts back from Accu-Rite, we can basically just assemble it. |
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That's a nice looking chassis. I don't have the experience with sheet metal to say whether it's enough or not, but i like your T-shaped bottom plate, and if that's a piece of lexan on top, it could help a lot too. Box structures are good, and box structures made out of box structures are really good. Nice chassis! Can't see what you're doing for gearboxes...
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![]() ![]() Here is a simple CAD of our West Coast Chassis with the drop down e-plates cfair was talking about. We have two e-plates on this robot, and both are able to be dropped. However, in this CAD I only dropped down one to show what one e-plate would look like when it is not dropped. wyrzykowskij1 also asked what the dimensions of this robot are. Currently we are at 29.5 inches x 26.25 inches. |
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