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Re: Robot Weight
Our drive train, including electronics and pneumatics, is ~80 lbs. Piling on every component we think we're going to need we get to 107 lbs. Assuming some additional support struts and little wibblybits we haven't made yet and some lexan side panels make up the rest of that weight, we're on target for 120 lbs, maybe a little less -- which we will make up for with ballast.
One goal for us is to keep our CG in the very, very center of the horizontal cross section of the robot and at or below the plane of the frame -- and it looks like that's going to happen!
On a side note, I don't buy that 90 lb robots are inherently faster than 120 lb robots. Depending on the drive train, acceleration can be torque-limited or traction-limited, speed depends on gearing, and turning ability depends on a whole lot more than weight.
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Last edited by pfreivald : 05-02-2012 at 00:21.
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