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Originally Posted by DampRobot
I would disagree. Having seen this robot at competition, I would say that the four bar linkage added a high COG and a lot of mechanical complexity for a very marginal performance benefit. Not a "why didn't we think of that?" in my mind.
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While you can't really say the performance benefit was marginal or not since they, to the best of my knowledge, didn't play without raising their shooter assembly - I think the numbers speak for themselves:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...51&postcount=1
and
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...86&postcount=6
Would you also claim that 330 or 548's lifted shooters had marginal advantages? Trust me, these teams did plenty of CoG calculations. Plus, while at the key or fender it doesn't even matter, it's not like you drive around with the bot in scoring position.