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Re: Turning on the bridge

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Originally Posted by MaxMax161 View Post
Reading through all the threads about 3 bot balancing I've seen a lot of teams with a narrow front robot talking about how they can turn sideways on the bridge and do a 3 bot balance. My team is one of those narrow front bots so I'm looking for as much info as I can get to make it happen.

Specifically I'm wondering;
-Has anyone ever seen this plan work? (video would be awesome)
-Is the turning bot usually the first or second bot on the bridge?
+If the narrow front bot is the first bot and it's balanced after turning can other bots easily get the bridge down?
I've seen plenty of turning on the bridge, but not to triple-balance. A zero turn radius and an omnidirectional drive is probably essential to pull this off.
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