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Re: Turning on the bridge

When 3456 triple balanced in Utah (albeit on the practice field), we were successful with two long robots and one wide robot. My team drove up first and turned sideways at the far end of the bridge (we are about 104 pounds with a true zero degree turn radius). The wide robot came up the middle, while the long robot, the heaviest of the three, helped to hold the bridge down while slowly pushing the middle bot forward. They ended up hanging off the back, but it worked!

I feel turning sideways is a viable strategy, with the right robot. We're almost 6 inches shorter than max length and have two wheel drive, so it worked well for us and probably would for similar robots. Still, at least one wide robot seems to be required to pull it off.
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