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Let's Talk About The Bridge:
Does anyone think an active balancing mechanism, like a moving heavy object, on the robot to balance 3 robots? My guess is, like most years, the majority of the robots will be around 120 lb and it would be relatively easy to balance one or two on the bridge. I had the idea of putting the battery and electronics on a platform that can be shifted from the front and back of the robot and anywhere in between to actively balance the robot. Having the weight shift back and forth instead of the actually moving the robot will be better when trying to squeeze 3 robots on the platform.
Any one have any objections to that? Relatively, it would only add a weight of a motor and the mounting. All the other weight will come from other necessary components such as the battery and other electrical components, perhaps even the shooting mechanism itself. |
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It'll be a whole lot easier to just move the base at a slow speed then to actively shift the weight in your robot.
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It would be very likely in your idea that the cord could get caught or yanked from the connectors. The battery alone could work well if nothing would tangle on its cord, but a dead weight (if the robot has weight allowance enough for it) would serve the purpose just as well. No math to back this up, but anything lighter than the battery may not be worth spending the weight or motors on.
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I was thinking of a lead screw with a "nut" that was just a huge chunk of steel with a threaded hole. But I also agree with BrendanB, that just careful driver control can be sufficient.
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I'll second Brendan. Why not just move the whole robot instead? You presumably already have that system on your robot and working. Why make even more work for yourself when you already have a shooter, pickup, and bridge slapper to design and build?
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In the eliminations how does the coopertition bridge play out? I can't find that anywhere. |
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I am wondering how robots are going to make the bridge go down form the neutral position. That may be hard. Is it just gonna be you run into it and it will move? or will we have to make a mechanism to lower it for us? Any thoughts?
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