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Re: Re: we'd do AWESOME

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Originally posted by Bduggan04
How tall was your robot, or more importantly, where was the center of gravity? The ability to climb a steep slope doesn't depend signifigantly on torque. Traction is a function (If I remember right) of the amount of weight and the tangent of the max angle the traction material keep from not sliding.
My Teamates were nice enough to chime in and respond to the other questions, (thanks Mike!). But this is simple to answer, if you havn't see "El Toro", we have an extreemly low center of gravity. We are actually about 1 1/2' tall and have a ground clearance of less than 1/4" (which is why it would be hard to get up the incline).
Yea, if we were to go up an incline like that i was thinking that we would have to set the bot already on the incline.
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