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Re: Designing a climbing mechanism for 2013... a humbling experience

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Originally Posted by Craig Roys View Post
Another challenge for some may be the 54" radius. Unless I'm misreading from the Q&A, that is with respect to the floor - so if your robot inverts, it needs to do so inside of a 54" cylinder. They certainly didn't make this a trivial challenge this year.
This was a question posed to the Q&A a couple of times even and, yes, the 54" cylinder is always with respect to the floor, not the robot. If your climbing scheme includes rotating the robot like the video posted earlier in this thread, you'll need to be mindful no part of your robot breaks the cylinder, including bumpers.

One of the more challenging 'size' restrictions we've had.
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