Chief Delphi - Suspending

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Originally Posted by Alex Cormier (Post 933242)

I was hoping we could have a match with you. I really wanted to be the first to get the 3 points! Come late friday night we had our hanger all worked out and beautiful. We could lift in 10 seconds or less from the floor in all of our three sat matches with ease.

Unfortunately by then we had removed our bar cover because of a near red-card when it bumped the ball return. (Fortunately, the egregious bump was caused by an opposing alliance robot who will remain nameless -- so they were red-carded instead). Dante warned us of the situation, and we fixed it by removing the bar cover.

Otherwise, it looks like some of you are confusing SUSPENSION with ELEVATION. We had quite a bit of ELEVATION at FLR (more than most of the other regionals, looking at the hanging points), but no SUSPENSIONs.

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Originally Posted by Alex Cormier (Post 933242)

If we only count our lifts on Saturday, I would think that we were the best lifter behind 1551. (or no?)

I think it was a close thing between you guys and 1559 for second place on lifting. Great job, rookies!

Patrick

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Originally Posted by pfreivald (Post 933264)

Thanks, we will have a improved and ready robot come Ruckus time. Maybe we will pair up then? :)

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Originally Posted by Ryan_Davis (Post 933239)

Eastridge Robotics 3157 is proud to be an FLR suspender, along with Lockport 1507, Victor 1559, and Naples 1551. There were some occaisonal suspensions from Pittsford 3181, 1126 Sparx, and even 191 Wilson-Magnet. :D

Um... Noone suspended at FLR. You guys did a good job elevating though!

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Originally Posted by Clinton Bolinger (Post 932898)

Thank's Clinton, We almost hung but with our hook droping almost 2 feet below the bar hieght it took extra time for the cable to wind up on our wench. Once it caught up and started to hang time was up. I am positive if your second hook would have caught we would have done it.

I bet you will get many chances coming up to sucseed. With the low scores it can be a game decider.

I think that most teams just decided that at only 1 point more than hanging, it just wasnt worth the time, and effort to make it work.

Team 1241 hung on multiple ocations at flr, as well had the option for the suspension of another robot but due to time constraints and game play strategy never saw any possibilities to try in actuall game play.

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Originally Posted by Clinton Bolinger (Post 932898)

To add to what Zach said:

In the match with 1322, one of the two hooks on our Team's attachment mechanism was not secured to the field tower. Team 1322 successfully attached their robot to our supports, but since we were not completely attached to the tower, it caused our robot to move into a lower vertical position where we were no longer considered elevated. We are able to successfully elevate our (single) robot with the support of one hook, as proven in two matches at the Kettering University District.

After the aforementioned match, we discovered the root problem of the difficulty of attaching both hooks, and made some physical modifications to the design. These changes yielded positive results, which allowed our robot to successfully elevate itself in the successive matches.

The last determining factor that attributed to our inability to allow another robot to suspend from our mechanism, is that the alliance selection assignments did not provide our Team with an alliance partner whose robot had the ability to suspend itself off of the tower. Since our robot is designed such that any robot with the ability to elevate from the tower also has the ability to be supported by our robot, no one was able to attempt to suspend themselves from us.

I would also like to thank Team 1322 for your immense efforts to attempt to suspend your robot from ours. Had our Team's second hook successfully attached to the tower, we certainly would have seen the first elevate/suspension! Thanks for all of the great teamwork!

-Clinton-

Clinton, we owe you and your entire team huge thank you's. Over the last few weeks you have been a gracious host. I hope you at least got a cookie or brownie!!

I think if we had just a few more seconds and if your 2nd hook attached, it would have been incredible. I know you guys are going to go to Ann Arbor and be successful. It wouldn't surprise me at all if you didn't have 2 robots hanging off you!! Best of luck!

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Originally Posted by Clinton Bolinger (Post 932898)

I would also like to thank Team 1322 for your immense efforts to attempt to suspend your robot from ours. Had our Team's second hook successfully attached to the tower, we certainly would have seen the first elevate/suspension! Thanks for all of the great teamwork!

And I would like to thank the EngiNERDS for all that they have done~ If we had a few more seconds left in the match we would have been suspended from your robot. I truly hope that our two teams continue to work together in the future when we get the chances. I'm not sure about you, but to me it seemed like the crowd went nuts when we were starting to hang off of your robot!

Here are some pictures from Daniel Ernst @ Kettering District:

Starting to hook on:

Hooked and ready to Lift:

Almost there:

2 Points:

The one hook Hang:

Be sure to check out the rest of the Kettering picture from Daniel Ernst Flickr.

1322 - Thank you for the Brownies and Cookies, you are more then welcome to come to our facility any time.

-Clinton-