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Unread 11-02-2011, 22:12
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Re: under 2 sec Mini bot

We just made 3 seconds from start of deployment to triggering. .3 seconds to deploy (plus maybe .1 for the minibot clamp to release), 2.85 seconds for the climb itself.

I do hope that we can regularly deploy though. The robot will probably be able to drive tomorrow and we can do a full test of how difficult it is to align and deploy, but for now anything could happen. We tried to design our robot with deployment in mind though. The camera is mounted on a servo so we can turn it around to align for deployment, and supposedly our deployment tray is able to self-align during deployment as long as the brakes aren't on.

What about trading minibots? Who has a flexible enough deployment system to handle a variety of minibots? It looks like our tray will be able to deploy anything that has a vertical neck no more than ~3" wide. Have any teams been actively collaborating with others to build compatible minibots?
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