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Originally Posted by Alex.q
I would actually recommend against swerve drive unless you have prior experience with it--too many points of failure; it isn't robust in my experience. (Granted, we only tried it once. There are plenty of teams with better designs than ours).
If you use a gripper tht expands to hold the inside of the cones, make sure you can place them on the rods and retract your claw without pulling the cones back off the rod. That happened a lot in 2011 for inside grippers.
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Hmm we are actually thinking of using an outside high friction gripper. We have the exact cones and they are very flexible. With enough friction you can squeeze them from the stack and place them down/pick them up one by one.
But yea we also need to pick up stacks of cones so we need a mechanism to grab the whole. They aren't very heavy and we may use the inside gripper mechanism together with our single cone high friction gripper. If it's too hard to use the inside gripper (as the stack of cones we need to pick up from are placed in a rod itself, so you gotta make sure you don't hit the rod) we may just use a big claw and grab the whole lot from the bottom. The cones are really light and small thankfully.