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Re: TRIPLE BALANCE

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Originally Posted by kstl99 View Post
At GSR a double balance was rare enough that I do not think that anyone tried a triple.
Our GSR finalist alliance of 1519, 885, 2791 explored the triple balance with our robots on the practice field before elimination rounds. We had hoped that it would be possible with our 3 wide-format robots, but we were not able to find a configuration in which it would work. Even though we could hang a significant fraction of our robot off of the bridge due to our 8-wheel drive, both the 885 and 2791 robots had a sufficiently high CG that when either end of their 4wd robots was hung off of the bridge, the robot would topple over.

We ended up going with two-robot bridge balancing instead -- we had really hoped that we'd be able to do the 3-robot balancing act, but didn't have quite the right robots to be able to succeed at it.
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