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Re: No Pneumatics?
We have not used pneumatics on a robot since 2004.
It's not that we are opposed to using them, we just typically haven't found the tipping point of enough mechanisms that would need that type of actuation to make the investment in weight, packaging, etc...to put a pneumatic system on one of our machines.
With not using them for so long, I think if we are seeing mechanisms differently such that we think a motor and gearbox would work better. I'm sure if we started using pneumatics, we would find plenty of uses for them.
For this year, we were planning on having them on the robot but ran out of space for almost everything. We scrambled to even find room for the battery and cRIO, so even a "passive" pneumatic system without a compressor was pretty much impossible for us. Corner climbing systems take up a lot of space.
-Adam
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